'Bolt' definitions:
Definition of 'bolt'
From: WordNet
adverb
In a rigid manner; "the body was rigidly erect"; "he sat bolt upright" [syn: rigidly, stiffly, bolt]
adverb
noun
A discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder [syn: thunderbolt, bolt, bolt of lightning]
noun
A sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech
noun
The part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key [syn: bolt, deadbolt]
noun
The act of moving with great haste; "he made a dash for the door" [syn: dash, bolt]
noun
A roll of cloth or wallpaper of a definite length
noun
A screw that screws into a nut to form a fastener
noun
A sudden abandonment (as from a political party)
verb
Move or jump suddenly; "She bolted from her seat"
verb
Secure or lock with a bolt; "bolt the door" [ant: unbolt]
verb
Swallow hastily
verb
Run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along; "The thief made off with our silver"; "the accountant absconded with the cash from the safe" [syn: abscond, bolt, absquatulate, decamp, run off, go off, make off]
verb
Leave suddenly and as if in a hurry; "The listeners bolted when he discussed his strange ideas"; "When she started to tell silly stories, I ran out" [syn: run off, run out, bolt, bolt out, beetle off]
verb
Eat hastily without proper chewing; "Don't bolt your food!" [syn: gobble, bolt]
verb
Make or roll into bolts; "bolt fabric"
Definition of 'Bolt'
From: GCIDE
- Bolt \Bolt\, adv. In the manner of a bolt; suddenly; straight; unbendingly. [1913 Webster]
- [He] came bolt up against the heavy dragoon. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster]
- Bolt upright. (a) Perfectly upright; perpendicular; straight up; unbendingly erect. --Addison. (b) On the back at full length. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bolt'
From: GCIDE
- Bolt \Bolt\, n. [AS. bolt; akin to Icel. bolti, Dan. bolt, D. bout, OHG. bolz, G. 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. [1913 Webster]
- Look that the crossbowmen lack not bolts. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- A fool's bolt is soon shot. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Lightning; a thunderbolt. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 5. An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Away with him to prison! lay bolts enough upon him. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 6. A compact package or roll of cloth, as of canvas or silk, often containing about forty yards. [1913 Webster]
- 7. A bundle, as of oziers. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Note: See Tap bolt, Screw bolt, and Stud bolt. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bolt'
From: GCIDE
- Bolt \Bolt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bolted; p. pr. & vb. n. Bolting.]
- 1. To shoot; to discharge or drive forth. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out. [1913 Webster]
- I hate when Vice can bolt her arguments. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To swallow without chewing; as, to bolt food; often used with down. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Sporting) To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge, as conies, rabbits, etc. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as a door, a timber, fetters; to shackle; to restrain. [1913 Webster]
- Let tenfold iron bolt my door. --Langhorn. [1913 Webster]
- Which shackles accidents and bolts up change. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bolt'
From: GCIDE
- Bolt \Bolt\ (b[=o]lt; 110), 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. [1913 Webster]
- This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt, . . . And oft out of a bush doth bolt. --Drayton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt. [1913 Webster]
- His cloudless thunder bolted on their heads. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To spring suddenly aside, or out of the regular path; as, the horse bolted. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bolt'
From: GCIDE
- Bolt \Bolt\, n. [From Bolt, v. i.]
- 1. A sudden spring or start; a sudden spring aside; as, the horse made a bolt. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A sudden flight, as to escape creditors. [1913 Webster]
- This gentleman was so hopelessly involved that he contemplated a bolt to America -- or anywhere. --Compton Reade. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bolt'
From: GCIDE
- Bolt \Bolt\, n. A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bolt'
From: GCIDE
- Bolt \Bolt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bolted; p. pr. & vb. n. Bolting.] [OE. bolten, boulten, OF. buleter, F. bluter, fr. Ll. buletare, buratare, cf. F. bure coarse woolen stuff; fr. L. burrus red. See Borrel, and cf. Bultel.] [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- He now had bolted all the flour. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- Ill schooled in bolted language. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To separate, as if by sifting or bolting; -- with out. [1913 Webster]
- Time and nature will bolt out the truth of things. --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Law) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law. --Jacob. [1913 Webster]
- To bolt to the bran, to examine thoroughly, so as to separate or discover everything important. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- This bolts the matter fairly to the bran. --Harte. [1913 Webster]
- The report of the committee was examined and sifted and bolted to the bran. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'bolt'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abscond,
- absence without leave,
- absquatulate,
- absquatulation,
- apostacize,
- apostasy,
- apostatize,
- arrow,
- arrowhead,
- articulate,
- assort,
- attach,
- AWOL,
- backsliding,
- bale,
- ball lightning,
- bang,
- bar,
- barb,
- barricade,
- barrier,
- batten,
- batten down,
- beat a retreat,
- betray,
- betrayal,
- bindle,
- blat,
- block,
- block up,
- blockade,
- blow,
- blurt out,
- bobtailed arrow,
- boil,
- bola,
- bolt down,
- bolt of lightning,
- bolt upright,
- bomb,
- bombshell,
- boomerang,
- bouquet,
- break away,
- breakaway,
- brickbat,
- buckle,
- budget,
- bundle,
- burn out,
- butt,
- button,
- button up,
- career,
- catch,
- categorize,
- chain lightning,
- change sides,
- charge,
- chase,
- chested arrow,
- chock,
- choke,
- choke off,
- clap,
- clarify,
- clasp,
- classify,
- clear,
- clear out,
- cleat,
- clip,
- close,
- close off,
- close tight,
- close up,
- cloth yard shaft,
- coil,
- collate,
- connect,
- constrict,
- contain,
- contract,
- cordon,
- cordon off,
- countermissile,
- cover,
- cram,
- crowd,
- cry out,
- cull out,
- cut and run,
- dark lightning,
- dart,
- dash,
- dash off,
- debar,
- decamp,
- decampment,
- deck,
- decrassify,
- defect,
- defection,
- depart,
- depurate,
- dereliction,
- desert,
- deserter,
- desertion,
- devour,
- disappearance,
- disappearing act,
- disloyalty,
- distill,
- divide,
- dog,
- dovetail,
- edulcorate,
- ejaculate,
- elope,
- elopement,
- elute,
- engorge,
- erect,
- escape,
- essentialize,
- exit,
- extract,
- eye-opener,
- fagot,
- faithlessness,
- fall away,
- fall off,
- fardel,
- fasces,
- fascine,
- fasten,
- filter,
- filtrate,
- fireball,
- firebolt,
- fix,
- flee,
- flight,
- fling,
- fly,
- flying flame,
- fold,
- fold up,
- forked lightning,
- French leave,
- fugitate,
- fugitation,
- fulguration,
- fulmination,
- ghettoize,
- gluttonize,
- go AWOL,
- go over,
- gobble,
- going over,
- gorge,
- gormandize,
- gradate,
- grade,
- group,
- gulp,
- gulp down,
- guttle,
- guzzle,
- hasp,
- haste,
- hasten,
- hasty retreat,
- hegira,
- hie,
- hinge,
- hitch,
- hook,
- hump,
- hump it,
- hurry,
- hurtle,
- ingurgitate,
- insulate,
- Irish confetti,
- jam,
- joint,
- jump,
- jump bail,
- Jupiter Fulgur,
- keep apart,
- keep aside,
- key,
- lash,
- latch,
- lay aside,
- leach,
- length,
- let down,
- levant,
- levin bolt,
- lightning,
- live to eat,
- lixiviate,
- lock,
- lock out,
- lock up,
- make haste,
- make off,
- missile,
- miter,
- mortise,
- nail,
- nosegay,
- oak-cleaving thunderbolts,
- obstruct,
- occlude,
- pack,
- package,
- packet,
- padlock,
- parcel,
- part,
- peg,
- percolate,
- pick out,
- piece,
- pin,
- plumb,
- poop out,
- portion,
- post,
- posy,
- projectile,
- pull out,
- purify,
- put aside,
- quarantine,
- quarrel,
- quick exit,
- quiver,
- rabbet,
- race,
- rank,
- rat,
- ratting,
- raven,
- recidivation,
- recidivism,
- recreancy,
- rectify,
- reed,
- refine,
- revelation,
- riddle,
- rigidly,
- rivet,
- rock,
- rocket,
- rod,
- roll,
- rouleau,
- run,
- run away,
- run away from,
- run away with,
- run for it,
- run off,
- run out on,
- running away,
- rush,
- scamper,
- scarf,
- schism,
- scoot,
- scour,
- scram,
- scramble,
- scramming,
- screen,
- screw,
- scud,
- scurry,
- scuttle,
- seal,
- seal off,
- seal up,
- secede,
- secession,
- seclude,
- secure,
- segregate,
- sell out,
- separate,
- set apart,
- set aside,
- sew,
- shaft,
- sheaf,
- sheet lightning,
- shock,
- shocker,
- shoot,
- show the heels,
- shut,
- shut off,
- shut out,
- shut the door,
- shut tight,
- shut up,
- sieve,
- sift,
- size,
- skedaddle,
- skedaddling,
- skewer,
- skip,
- skip out,
- slam,
- slip the cable,
- slop,
- slosh,
- snap,
- sort,
- sort out,
- spiritualize,
- spring,
- squeeze,
- squeeze shut,
- staple,
- startle,
- step on it,
- stick,
- stiffly,
- stifle,
- stitch,
- stone,
- stop up,
- straight,
- strain,
- strangle,
- strangulate,
- strip,
- stroke of lightning,
- stuff,
- sublimate,
- sublime,
- subordinate,
- suffocate,
- surprise,
- swallow whole,
- switch,
- switch over,
- tack,
- take flight,
- take French leave,
- take to flight,
- take wing,
- tear,
- Thor,
- thrash,
- thresh,
- throw stick,
- throwing-stick,
- thunderball,
- thunderbolt,
- thunderstroke,
- toggle,
- torpedo,
- treason,
- truss,
- try,
- turn cloak,
- turn tail,
- turning traitor,
- volley,
- waddy,
- walkout,
- wedge,
- winnow,
- wolf,
- wolf down,
- zip up,
- zipper
Words containing 'Bolt'
- Bolted,
- Bolting,
- Through bolt,
- bolt down,
- bolt out,
- Bat bolt,
- Bolt and nut,
- Bolt auger,
- Bolt upright,
- Bolting cloth,
- Bolting hutch,
- Chain bolt,
- Flour bolt,
- Flush bolt,
- Forelock bolt,
- Fox bolt,
- Garnish bolt,
- Jag bolt,
- Joint bolt,
- Key bolt,
- La Bolt,
- Lug bolt,
- Preventer bolts,
- Rag bolt,
- Roller bolt,
- Screw bolt,
- Shackle bolt,
- Shoe bolt,
- Socket bolt,
- Standing bolt,
- Stay bolt,
- Stopper bolt,
- Strap bolt,
- Stud bolt,
- Tap bolt,
- To bolt to the bran,
- bolt cutter,
- bolt hole,
- bolt of lightning,
- carriage bolt,
- elf bolt,
- expansion bolt,
- lag bolt,
- machine bolt,
- nut and bolt,
- nuts and bolts,
- safety bolt,
- stove bolt,
- toggle bolt,
- Dread-bolted,
- La Bolt, SD,
- Wrain-bolt,
- bolt-hole