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Snipebill :: Snipebill (n.) A bolt by which the body of a cart is fastened to the axle.

Breeching :: Breeching (n.) A strong rope rove through the cascabel of a cannon and secured to ringbolts in the ship's side, to limit the recoil of the gun when it is discharged..

Bolt :: Bolt (n.) An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.

Hackbolt :: Hackbolt (n.) The greater shearwater or hagdon. See Hagdon.

Thunder :: Thunder (n.) The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt.

Wrench :: Wrench (v. t.) An instrument, often a simple bar or lever with jaws or an angular orifice either at the end or between the ends, for exerting a twisting strain, as in turning bolts, nuts, screw taps, etc.; a screw key. Many wrenches have adjustable jaws for grasping nuts, etc., of different sizes..

Iron-sick :: Iron-sick (a.) Having the ironwork loose or corroded; -- said of a ship when her bolts and nails are so eaten with rust that she has become leaky.

Sterna :: Sternson (n.) The end of a ship's keelson, to which the sternpost is bolted; -- called also stern knee..

Thunderbolt :: Thunderbolt (n.) Vehement threatening or censure; especially, ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination..

Dogbolt :: Dogbolt (n.) The bolt of the cap-square over the trunnion of a cannon.

Bulti :: Bulti (n.) Same as Bolty.

Wringbolt :: Wringbolt (n.) A bolt used by shipwrights, to bend and secure the planks against the timbers till they are fastened by bolts, spikes, or treenails; -- not to be confounded with ringbolt..

Bolt :: Bolt (v. t.) To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge, as conies, rabbits, etc..

Bolt :: Bolt (v. t.) To swallow without chewing; as, to bolt food..

Deadlock :: Deadlock (n.) A lock which is not self-latching, but requires a key to throw the bolt forward..

Unbolt :: Unbolt (v. t.) To remove a bolt from; to unfasten; to unbar; to open.

Dread-bolted :: Dread-bolted (a.) Armed with dreaded bolts.

Ringbolt :: Ringbolt (n.) An eyebolt having a ring through the eye.

Pin :: Pin (n.) A piece of wood, metal, etc., generally cylindrical, used for fastening separate articles together, or as a support by which one article may be suspended from another; a peg; a bolt..

Hutch :: Hutch (n.) The case of a flour bolt.

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