n. A bolt with a barbed shank. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A short blunt arrow for killing birds without piercing them. Hence: Anything which smites without penetrating. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Blood + Prov. E. bolter to mat in tufts. Cf. Balter. ] Having the hair matted with clotted blood. [ Obs. & R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The blood-boltered Banquo smiles upon me. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 A sliding catch, or fastening, as for a door or gate; the portion of a lock which is shot or withdrawn by the action of the key.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

See Tap bolt, Screw bolt, and Stud bolt. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

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 ]

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 ]

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 ]

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 ]

n. A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Boultel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kind of fishing line. See Boulter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who sifts flour or meal. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An instrument or machine for separating bran from flour, or the coarser part of meal from the finer; a sieve. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who bolts; esp.: (a) A horse which starts suddenly aside. (b) A man who breaks away from his party. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Chem.) A long, straight-necked, glass vessel for chemical distillations; -- called also a matrass or receiver. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The head of a bolt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A darting away; a starting off or aside. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A sifting, as of flour or meal. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) A private arguing of cases for practice by students, as in the Inns of Court. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Bolting cloth, wire, hair, silk, or other sieve cloth of different degrees of fineness; -- used by millers for sifting flour. McElrath. --
Bolting hutch, a bin or tub for the bolted flour or meal; (fig.) a receptacle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) A granular mineral of a grayish or yellowish color, found in Bolton, Massachusetts. It is a silicate of magnesium, belonging to the chrysolite family. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) A rope stitched to the edges of a sail to strengthen the sail. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ A corruption of bowsprit. ] (Naut.) See Bowsprit. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) An edible fish of the Nile (genus Chromis). [ Written also bulti. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A birdbolt. [ Obs. ] Ford. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a type of bolt threaded only at the end opposite the head, used mostly for fastening pieces of timber together, and inserted into pre-drilled holes. [ PJC ]

n. (Gun.) The bolt of the cap-square over the trunnion of a cannon. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A coupling pin. See under Coupling. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Engin.) A coupling pin. See under Coupling. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Armed with dreaded bolts. “Dread-bolted thunder.” [ Poetic ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A bolt for driving out other bolts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A drift; a tool for setting bolts home. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mach.) A bolt with a looped head, or an opening in the head. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The greater shearwater or hagdon. See Hagdon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A vertical iron bolt, by which the forward axle and wheels of a vehicle or the trucks of a railroad car are connected with the other parts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A threaded hexagonal or square-headed bolt with a nut; it is tightened with a wrench and used to connect metal parts. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. An eyebolt having a ring through the eye. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Shipbuilding) 1. An iron pin, or bolt, for fitting planks closely together. Craig. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A bolt used for forcing another bolt out of its hole. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A shaft of lightning; a brilliant stream of electricity passing from one part of the heavens to another, or from the clouds to the earth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Something resembling lightning in suddenness and effectiveness. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Scipios' worth, those thunderbolts of war. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Vehement threatening or censure; especially, ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination. [ 1913 Webster ]

He severely threatens such with the thunderbolt of excommunication. Hakewill. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Paleon.) A belemnite, or thunderstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thunderbolt beetle (Zool.), a long-horned beetle (Arhopalus fulminans) whose larva bores in the trunk of oak and chestnut trees. It is brownish and bluish-black, with W-shaped whitish or silvery markings on the elytra. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + bolt. ] To remove a bolt from; to unfasten; to unbar; to open. “He shall unbolt the gates.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To explain or unfold a matter; to make a revelation. [ Obs. ] “I will unbolt to you.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Wringbolt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Shipbuilding) A bolt used by shipwrights, to bend and secure the planks against the timbers till they are fastened by bolts, spikes, or treenails; -- not to be confounded with ringbolt. [ 1913 Webster ]