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Sprigged :: Sprig (n.) A small eyebolt ragged or barbed at the point.

Slot :: Slot (n.) A bolt or bar for fastening a door.

Nut :: Nut (n.) A perforated block (usually a small piece of metal), provided with an internal or female screw thread, used on a bolt, or screw, for tightening or holding something, or for transmitting motion. See Illust. of lst Bolt..

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.

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

Ribband :: Ribband (n.) A long, narrow strip of timber bent and bolted longitudinally to the ribs of a vessel, to hold them in position, and give rigidity to the framework..

Boltrope :: Boltrope (n.) A rope stitched to the edges of a sail to strengthen the sail.

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

Bolted :: Bolted (imp. & p. p.) of Bol.

Boltel :: Boltel (n.) See Boultel.

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.

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

Lock :: Lock (n.) Anything that fastens; specifically, a fastening, as for a door, a lid, a trunk, a drawer, and the like, in which a bolt is moved by a key so as to hold or to release the thing fastened..

Chesstree :: Chesstree (n.) A piece of oak bolted perpendicularly on the side of a vessel, to aid in drawing down and securing the clew of the mainsail..

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

Bee :: Bee (n.) Pieces of hard wood bolted to the sides of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays through; -- called also bee blocks..

Reeve :: Reeve (v. t.) To pass, as the end of a pope, through any hole in a block, thimble, cleat, ringbolt, cringle, or the like..

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

Stud :: Stud (n.) A stud bolt.

Mainpin :: Mainpin (n.) A kingbolt.

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