Bolt

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A bundle, as of oziers.

II. Bolt ·noun Lightning; a thunderbolt.

III. Bolt ·vi To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.

IV. Bolt ·vi A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.

V. Bolt ·vt To swallow without chewing; as, to bolt food.

VI. Bolt ·vt To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.

VII. Bolt ·vt To separate, as if by sifting or bolting;

— with out.

VIII. Bolt ·adv In the manner of a bolt; suddenly; straight; unbendingly.

IX. Bolt ·noun An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.

X. Bolt ·vt To Shoot; to discharge or drive forth.

XI. Bolt ·vt To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.

XII. Bolt ·vt To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge, as conies, rabbits, ·etc.

XIII. Bolt ·vi To spring suddenly aside, or out of the regular path; as, the horse bolted.

XIV. Bolt ·vi A sudden spring or start; a sudden spring aside; as, the horse made a bolt.

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

XVI. Bolt ·noun A compact package or roll of cloth, as of canvas or silk, often containing about forty yards.

XVII. Bolt ·vi A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.

XVIII. Bolt ·vt 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.

XIX. Bolt ·vi 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.

XX. Bolt ·noun A sliding catch, or fastening, as for a door or gate; the portion of a lock which is shot or withdrawn by the action of the key.

XXI. Bolt ·vi 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.

XXII. Bolt ·noun 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.

XXIII. Bolt ·vt To fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as a door, a timber, fetters; to Shackle; to Restrain.

XXIV. Bolt ·vt 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.

XXV. Bolt ·noun 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.

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