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BOLT,n. [L. pello.] 1. An arrow; a dart; a pointed shaft.2. A strong cylindrical pin, of iron or other metal, used to fasten a door, a plank, a chain, &c. In ships, bolts are used in the sides and decks, and have different names, as rag-bolts, eye-bolts, ring-bolts,chain-bolts, &c. In gunnery, there are prise-bolts, transom-bolts, traverse-bolts, and bracket-bolts.3. A thunder-bolt; a stream of lightning, so named from its darting like a bolt.4. The quantity of twenty-eight ells of canvas.BOLT, v.t. To fasten or secure with a bolt, or iron pin, whether a door, a plank, fetters or any thing else. 1. To fasten; to shackle; to restrain.2. To blurt out; to utter or throw out precipitately.I hate when vice can bolt her arguments.In this sense it is often followed by out.3. To sift or separate bran from flour. In America this term is applied only to the operation performed in mills.4. Among sportsmen, to start or dislodge, used of coneys.5. To examine by sifting; to open or separate the parts of a subject, to find the truth; generally followed by out. "Time and nature will bolt out the truth of things." [Inelegant.]6. To purify; to purge. [Unusual.]7. To discuss or argue; as at Gray's inn, where cases are privately discussed by students and barristers.BOLT, v.i. To shoot forth suddenly; to spring out with speed and suddenness; to start forth like a bolt; commonly followed by out; as, to bolt out of the house, or out of a den.
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BOLT,n. [L. pello.] 1. An arrow; a dart; a pointed shaft.2. A strong cylindrical pin, of iron or other metal, used to fasten a door, a plank, a chain, &c. In ships, bolts are used in the sides and decks, and have different names, as rag-bolts, eye-bolts, ring-bolts,chain-bolts, &c. In gunnery, there are prise-bolts, transom-bolts, traverse-bolts, and bracket-bolts.3. A thunder-bolt; a stream of lightning, so named from its darting like a bolt.4. The quantity of twenty-eight ells of canvas.BOLT, v.t. To fasten or secure with a bolt, or iron pin, whether a door, a plank, fetters or any thing else. 1. To fasten; to shackle; to restrain.2. To blurt out; to utter or throw out precipitately.I hate when vice can bolt her arguments.In this sense it is often followed by out.3. To sift or separate bran from flour. In America this term is applied only to the operation performed in mills.4. Among sportsmen, to start or dislodge, used of coneys.5. To examine by sifting; to open or separate the parts of a subject, to find the truth; generally followed by out. "Time and nature will bolt out the truth of things." [Inelegant.]6. To purify; to purge. [Unusual.]7. To discuss or argue; as at Gray's inn, where cases are privately discussed by students and barristers.BOLT, v.i. To shoot forth suddenly; to spring out with speed and suddenness; to start forth like a bolt; commonly followed by out; as, to bolt out of the house, or out of a den. | BOLT, n. [Dan. bolt; Russ. bolt; D. bout; G. bolzen; Sax. bolta, catapulta, that which is driven, from the roof of Gr. βαλλω, L. pello.]- An arrow; a dart; a pointed shaft. – Dryden.
- A strong cylindrical pin, of iron or other metal, used to fasten a door, a plank, a chain, &c. In ships, bolts are used in the sides and decks, and have different names, as rag-bolts, eye-bolts, ring-bolts, chain-bolts, &c. In gunnery, there are prise-bolts, transom-bolts, traverse-bolts, and bracket-bolts.
- A thunder-bolt; a stream of lightning, so named from its darting like a bolt.
- The quantity of twenty-eight ells of canvas. – Encyc.
BOLT, v.i.To shoot forth suddenly; to spring out with speed and suddenness; to start forth like a bolt; commonly followed by out; as, to bolt out of the house, or out of a den. – Dryden. BOLT, v.t.- To fasten or secure with a bolt or iron pin, whether a door, a plank, fetters, or any thing else.
- To fasten; to shackle; to restrain. – Shak.
- To blurt out; to utter or throw out precipitately.
I hate when vice can bolt her arguments. – Milton.
In this sense it is often followed by out.
BOLT, v.t. [Russ. boltayu, to shake, agitate, babble; Norm. bulter, a bolting sieve.]- To sift or separate bran from flour, by passing the fine part of meal through a cloth.
- Among sportsmen, to start or dislodge, used of coneys.
- To examine by sifting; to open or separate the parts of a subject, to find the truth; generally followed by out. “Time and nature will bolt out the truth of things.” [Inelegant.] – L'Estrange.
- To purify; to purge. [Unusual.] – Shak.
- To discuss or argue; as at Gray's Inn, where cases are privately discussed by students and barristers. – Encyc.
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- 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.
- To shoot] to discharge or drive forth.
- 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.
- In the manner of a bolt;
suddenly; straight; unbendingly.
- A sudden spring or start; a sudden
spring aside; as, the horse made a bolt.
- 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.
- A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve
used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.
- Lightning; a thunderbolt.
- To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw
out.
- To strike or fall suddenly like a
bolt.
- A sudden flight, as to escape
creditors.
- To separate, as if by sifting or bolting; --
with out.
- 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.
- To swallow without chewing; as, to bolt
food.
- To spring suddenly aside, or out of the regular
path; as, the horse bolted.
- A refusal to support a
nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking
away from one's party.
- To discuss or argue privately, and
for practice, as cases at law.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a
shackle; a fetter.
- To cause to start or spring
forth; to dislodge, as conies, rabbits, etc.
- A compact package or roll of cloth, as of canvas
or silk, often containing about forty yards.
- To fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or
bolts, as a door, a timber, fetters; to shackle; to restrain.
- A bundle, as of oziers.
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Bolt BOLT,noun [Latin pello.] 1. An arrow; a dart; a pointed shaft. 2. A strong cylindrical pin, of iron or other metal, used to fasten a door, a plank, a chain, etc. In ships, bolts are used in the sides and decks, and have different names, as rag-bolts, eye-bolts, ring-bolts, chain-bolts, etc. In gunnery, there are prise-bolts, transom-bolts, traverse-bolts, and bracket-bolts. 3. A thunder-bolt; a stream of lightning, so named from its darting like a bolt 4. The quantity of twenty-eight ells of canvas. BOLT, verb transitive To fasten or secure with a bolt or iron pin, whether a door, a plank, fetters or any thing else. 1. To fasten; to shackle; to restrain. 2. To blurt out; to utter or throw out precipitately. I hate when vice can bolt her arguments. In this sense it is often followed by out. 3. To sift or separate bran from flour. In America this term is applied only to the operation performed in mills. 4. Among sportsmen, to start or dislodge, used of coneys. 5. To examine by sifting; to open or separate the parts of a subject, to find the truth; generally followed by out. 'Time and nature will bolt out the truth of things.' [Inelegant.] 6. To purify; to purge. [Unusual.] 7. To discuss or argue; as at Gray's inn, where cases are privately discussed by students and barristers. BOLT, verb intransitive To shoot forth suddenly; to spring out with speed and suddenness; to start forth like a bolt; commonly followed by out; as, to bolt out of the house, or out of a den.
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