Definition of bolt

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Bolt (v. i.) A sudden spring or start; a sudden spring aside; as, the horse made a bolt..

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Bolt :: Bolt (n.) Lightning; a thunderbolt.
Bolt :: Bolt (n.) A compact package or roll of cloth, as of canvas or silk, often containing about forty yards..
Bolt :: Bolt (v. t.) To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
Bolter :: Bolter (n.) One who bolts; esp.: (a) A horse which starts suddenly aside. (b) A man who breaks away from his party.
Bolty :: Bolty (n.) An edible fish of the Nile (genus Chromis).
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..
Thunderbolt :: Thunderbolt (n.) A belemnite, or thunderstone..
Bilbo :: Bilbo (n.) A long bar or bolt of iron with sliding shackles, and a lock at the end, to confine the feet of prisoners or offenders, esp. on board of ships..
Garble :: Garble (v. t.) To sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dros or dirt; as, to garble spices..
Eyebolt :: Eyebolt (n.) A bolt which a looped head, or an opening in the head..
Bolt :: Bolt (v. i.) A sudden flight, as to escape creditors..
Searce :: Searce (v. t.) To sift; to bolt.
Burbolt :: Burbolt (n.) A birdbolt.
Chain :: Chain (n.) Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels..
Bolter :: Bolter (n.) A kind of fishing line. See Boulter.
Bolt :: Bolt (v. t.) To separate, as if by sifting or bolting; -- with out..
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..
Bibbs :: Bibbs (n. pl.) Pieces of timber bolted to certain parts of a mast to support the trestletrees.
Strip :: Strip (v. i.) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. See Strip, v. t., 8..
Headrope :: Headrope (n.) That part of a boltrope which is sewed to the upper edge or head of a sail.
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