Bolt
Bolt ({not transcribed}) , noun
[Anglo-Saxon bolt; akin to Icelandic bolti, Danish bolt, Dutch bout, Old High German bolz, German bolz, bolzen; of uncertain origin.]
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A sliding catch, or fastening, as for a door or gate; the portion of a lock which is shot or withdrawn by the action of the key.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. [Obsolete]
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.
Collocations (2)
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. See B, C, and D, in illust. above.
See Tap bolt, Screw bolt, and Stud bolt.
Bolt , transitive verb
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 (bōlt; 110) , intransitive verb
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.
Bolt , adverb
In the manner of a bolt; suddenly; straight; unbendingly.
[He] came bolt up against the heavy dragoon.
Collocations (1)
Bolt upright , (a) Perfectly upright; perpendicular; straight up; unbendingly erect. — Addison (b) On the back at full length. [Obsolete] — Chaucer
Bolt , noun
[From Bolt, v. i.]
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 , transitive verb
[Old English bolten, boulten, Old French buleter, French bluter, from Ll. buletare, buratare, compare French bure coarse woolen stuff; from Latin burrus red. See Borrel, and compare Bultel.]
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. — Jacob
This bolts the matter fairly to the bran.
The report of the committee was examined and sifted and bolted to the bran.
Collocations (1)
To bolt to the bran , to examine thoroughly, so as to separate or discover everything important. — Chaucer
Bolt , noun
A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter. — B. Jonson