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   Bolt , n. [AS. bolt; akin to Icel. bolti, Dan. bolt, D. bout, OHG. bolz, G. bolz, bolzen; of uncertain origin.]
   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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   Look that the crossbowmen lack not bolts.
   Sir W. Scott.
   
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   A fool's bolt is soon shot.
   Shak.
   
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   Lightning; a thunderbolt.
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   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.
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   A sliding catch, or fastening, as for a door or gate; the portion of a lock which is shot or withdrawn by the action of the key.
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   An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter. [Obs.]
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   Away with him to prison!
   lay bolts enough upon him.
   Shak.
   
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   A compact package or roll of cloth, as of canvas or silk, often containing about forty yards.
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   A bundle, as of oziers.
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   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.
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   See Tap bolt, Screw bolt, and Stud bolt.
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   Bolt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bolted; p. pr. & vb. n. Bolting.]
   To shoot; to discharge or drive forth.
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   To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
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   I hate when Vice can bolt her arguments.
   Milton.
   
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   To swallow without chewing; as, to bolt food; often used with down.
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   (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.
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   (Sporting) To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge, as conies, rabbits, etc.
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   To fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as a door, a timber, fetters; to shackle; to restrain.
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   Let tenfold iron bolt my door.
   Langhorn.
   
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   Which shackles accidents and bolts up change.
   Shak.
   
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   Bolt , v. i.
    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.
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   This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt, . . . 
   And oft out of a bush doth bolt.
   Drayton.
   
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   To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
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   His cloudless thunder bolted on their heads.
   Milton.
   
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   To spring suddenly aside, or out of the regular path; as, the horse bolted.
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   (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.
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   Bolt, adv. In the manner of a bolt; suddenly; straight; unbendingly.
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   [He] came bolt up against the heavy dragoon.
   Thackeray.
   
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   Bolt upright. (a) Perfectly upright; perpendicular; straight up; unbendingly erect. Addison. (b) On the back at full length. [Obs.]
   Chaucer.
   
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   Bolt, n. [From Bolt, v. i.]
   A sudden spring or start; a sudden spring aside; as, the horse made a bolt.
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   A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
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   This gentleman was so hopelessly involved that he contemplated a bolt to America -- or anywhere.
   Compton Reade.
   
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   (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.
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   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.]
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   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.
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   He now had bolted all the flour.
   Spenser.
   
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   Ill schooled in bolted language.
   Shak.
   
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   To separate, as if by sifting or bolting; -- with out.
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   Time and nature will bolt out the truth of things.
   L'Estrange.
   
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   (Law) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
   Jacob.
   
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   To bolt to the bran, to examine thoroughly, so as to separate or discover everything important.
   Chaucer.
   
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   This bolts the matter fairly to the bran.
   Harte.
   
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   The report of the committee was examined and sifted and bolted to the bran.
   Burke.
   
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   Bolt, n. A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.
   B. Jonson.
   
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