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Bolt :: Bolt (n.) A strong pin, of iron or other material, used to fasten or hold something in place, often having a head at one end and screw thread cut upon the other end..

Pin :: Pin (n.) A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal..

Fastening :: Fastening (n.) Anything that binds and makes fast, as a lock, catch, bolt, bar, buckle, etc..

Boltel :: Boltel (n.) See Boultel.

Gate :: Gate (n.) In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into..

Wringstaff :: Wringstaff (n.) A strong piece of plank used in applying wringbolts.

Bolt :: Bolt (v. i.) To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.

Bolter :: Bolter (n.) A kind of fishing line. See Boulter.

Bolting :: Bolting (n.) A private arguing of cases for practice by students, as in the Inns of Court..

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..

Drawbore :: Drawbore (n.) A hole bored through a tenon nearer to the shoulder than the holes through the cheeks are to the edge or abutment against which the shoulder is to rest, so that a pin or bolt, when driven into it, will draw these parts together..

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..

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..

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

Deadlatch :: Deadlatch (n.) A kind of latch whose bolt may be so locked by a detent that it can not be opened from the inside by the handle, or from the outside by the latch key..

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

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

Unbarricade :: Unbarricade (v. t.) To unbolt; to unbar; to open.

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

Phaethon :: Phaethon (n.) The son of Helios (Phoebus), that is, the son of light, or of the sun. He is fabled to have obtained permission to drive the chariot of the sun, in doing which his want of skill would have set the world on fire, had he not been struck with a thunderbolt by Jupiter, and hurled headlong into the river Po..

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