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Cropper :: Cropper (n.) A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth..

Talon :: Talon (n.) The shoulder of the bolt of a lock on which the key acts to shoot the bolt.

Bolt :: Bolt (adv.) In the manner of a bolt; suddenly; straight; unbendingly.

Pintle :: Pintle (n.) A kingbolt of a wagon.

Wale :: Wale (n.) A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.

Boltsprit :: Boltsprit (n.) See Bowsprit.

Controller :: Controller (n.) An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged..

Bolt :: Bolt (v. i.) To start forth like a bolt or arrow; to spring abruptly; to come or go suddenly; to dart; as, to bolt out of the room..

Washer :: Washer (n.) A ring of metal, leather, or other material, or a perforated plate, used for various purposes, as around a bolt or screw to form a seat for the head or nut, or around a wagon axle to prevent endwise motion of the hub of the wheel and relieve friction, or in a joint to form a packing, etc..

Matrass :: Matrass (n.) A round-bottomed glass flask having a long neck; a bolthead.

Vireton :: Vireton (n.) An arrow or bolt for a crossbow having feathers or brass placed at an angle with the shaft to make it spin in flying.

Thimble :: Thimble (n.) A tubular piece, generally a strut, through which a bolt or pin passes..

Bolt :: Bolt (v. i.) To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or a caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.

Unbolt :: Unbolt (v. i.) To explain or unfold a matter; to make a revelation.

Bolting :: Bolting (n.) A sifting, as of flour or meal..

Strip :: Strip (v. t.) To tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the thread is stripped..

Selvedge :: Selvedge (n.) The edge plate of a lock, through which the bolt passes..

Thunderstone :: Thunderstone (n.) A thunderbolt, -- formerly believed to be a stone..

Fence :: Fence (n.) A projection on the bolt, which passes through the tumbler gates in locking and unlocking..

Eyebolt :: Eyebolt (n.) A bolt which a looped head, or an opening in the head..

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