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Bolt   /boʊlt/   Listen
noun
Bolt  n.  
1.
A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or that which resembles an arrow; a dart. "Look that the crossbowmen lack not bolts." "A fool's bolt is soon shot."
2.
Lightning; a thunderbolt.
3.
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.
4.
A sliding catch, or fastening, as for a door or gate; the portion of a lock which is shot or withdrawn by the action of the key.
5.
An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter. (Obs.) "Away with him to prison! lay bolts enough upon him."
6.
A compact package or roll of cloth, as of canvas or silk, often containing about forty yards.
7.
A bundle, as of oziers.
Bolt auger, an auger of large size; an auger to make holes for the bolts used by shipwrights.
Bolt and nut, a metallic pin with a head formed upon one end, and a movable piece (the nut) screwed upon a thread cut upon the other end. Note: See Tap bolt, Screw bolt, and Stud bolt.


Bolt  n.  
1.
A sudden spring or start; a sudden spring aside; as, the horse made a bolt.
2.
A sudden flight, as to escape creditors. "This gentleman was so hopelessly involved that he contemplated a bolt to America or anywhere."
3.
(U. S. Politics) A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.


Bolt  n.  A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.


verb
Bolt  v. t.  (past & past part. bolted; pres. part. bolting)  
1.
To shoot; to discharge or drive forth.
2.
To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out. "I hate when Vice can bolt her arguments."
3.
To swallow without chewing; as, to bolt food; often used with down.
4.
(U. S. Politics) To refuse to support, as a nomination made by a party to which one has belonged or by a caucus in which one has taken part.
5.
(Sporting) To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge, as conies, rabbits, etc.
6.
To fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as a door, a timber, fetters; to shackle; to restrain. "Let tenfold iron bolt my door." "Which shackles accidents and bolts up change."


Bolt  v. t.  (past & past part. bolted; pres. part. bolting)  
1.
To sift or separate the coarser from the finer particles of, as bran from flour, by means of a bolter; to separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means. "He now had bolted all the flour." "Ill schooled in bolted language."
2.
To separate, as if by sifting or bolting; with out. "Time and nature will bolt out the truth of things."
3.
(Law) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
To bolt to the bran, to examine thoroughly, so as to separate or discover everything important. "This bolts the matter fairly to the bran." "The report of the committee was examined and sifted and bolted to the bran."


Bolt  v. i.  
1.
To start forth like a bolt or arrow; to spring abruptly; to come or go suddenly; to dart; as, to bolt out of the room. "This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt,... And oft out of a bush doth bolt."
2.
To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt. "His cloudless thunder bolted on their heads."
3.
To spring suddenly aside, or out of the regular path; as, the horse bolted.
4.
(U.S. Politics) To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or a caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.


adverb
Bolt  adv.  In the manner of a bolt; suddenly; straight; unbendingly. "(He) came bolt up against the heavy dragoon."
Bolt upright.
(a)
Perfectly upright; perpendicular; straight up; unbendingly erect.
(b)
On the back at full length. (Obs.)





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"Bolt" Quotes from Famous Books



... impossible situations without sense of danger; now on his haunches, now on his head; yet ever graceful, and punctuating his most irrepressible outbursts of energy with little dots and dashes of perfect repose. He is, without exception, the wildest animal I ever saw,—a fiery, sputtering little bolt of life, luxuriating in quick oxygen and the woods' best juices. One can hardly think of such a creature being dependent, like the rest of us, on climate and food. But, after all, it requires no long acquaintance to learn he is human, for he works for a living. His busiest time is in the ...
— The Mountains of California • John Muir
... She was sitting bolt upright, a slender and rigid figure gripping the sides of her seat, and her first few cries had ceased. She was clad in close-fitting dark costume, a mass of warm brown hair went out in two wings or waves on each side of her forehead; and even at that distance it could be seen that her profile ...
— The Ball and The Cross • G.K. Chesterton
... ordinarily try whether a door that he has just bolted is fast; but the one-year-old child tests carefully the edge of the door he has shut, to see whether it is really closed, because he does not understand the effect of lock and bolt. For even in the eighteenth month he goes back and forth with a key, to the writing-desk, with the evident purpose of opening it. But at twelve months, when he tries whether it is fast, he does not think of the key at all, and does not yet possess a ...
— The Mind of the Child, Part II • W. Preyer
... from there I saw; Never on earth did any man see more. Gainst us their shields an hundred thousand bore, That laced helms and shining hauberks wore; And, bolt upright, their bright brown spearheads shone. Battle we'll have as never was before. Lords of the Franks, God keep you in valour! So hold your ground, we be not overborne!" Then say the Franks "Shame take him that goes off: If we must die, then ...
— The Song of Roland • Anonymous
... the Blood of Adonis, by the descending Goddess Venus transformed into a Rose of Anemona; partly likewise the Blood of Ajax, from which arose that most beautiful flower the Violet; partly also the Blood of the Giants slain by Jupiters thunder-bolt; partly also the Shed Tears of Althea, when she put off her Golden Vestments; and partly the Drops, which fell from the decocted Water of Medea, by which green things immediatly sprang out of the Earth; partly also the cocted Potion ...
— The Golden Calf, Which the World Adores, and Desires • John Frederick Helvetius


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