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Canted :: Canted (a.) Having angles; as, a six canted bolt head; a canted window..

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

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

Copper-fastened :: Copper-fastened (a.) Fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, etc.; as, a copper-fastened ship..

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..

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

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..

Rivet :: Rivet (v. t.) To spread out the end or point of, as of a metallic pin, rod, or bolt, by beating or pressing, so as to form a sort of head..

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

Bultel :: Bultel (n.) A bolter or bolting cloth; also, bran..

Screw :: Screw (n.) Specifically, a kind of nail with a spiral thread and a head with a nick to receive the end of the screw-driver. Screws are much used to hold together pieces of wood or to fasten something; -- called also wood screws, and screw nails. See also Screw bolt, below..

Channel :: Channel (n.) Flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase the spread of the shrouds and carry them clear of the bulwarks..

Double-lock :: Double-lock (v. t.) To lock with two bolts; to fasten with double security.

Spider :: Spider (n.) A skeleton, or frame, having radiating arms or members, often connected by crosspieces; as, a casting forming the hub and spokes to which the rim of a fly wheel or large gear is bolted; the body of a piston head; a frame for strengthening a core or mold for a casting, etc..

Drift :: Drift (n.) The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven..

Thunderbolt :: Thunderbolt (n.) A belemnite, or thunderstone..

Headrope :: Headrope (n.) That part of a boltrope which is sewed to the upper edge or head of a sail.

Bolt :: Bolt (v. i.) A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.

Thunderbolt :: Thunderbolt (n.) A shaft of lightning; a brilliant stream of electricity passing from one part of the heavens to another, or from the clouds to the earth..

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..

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