Word Finder - bolted

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To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.

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Bolt the vice to the bench.

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To secure a door by locking or barring it.

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Bolt the door.

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To flee, to depart, to accelerate suddenly.

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Seeing the snake, the horse bolted.

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To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted).

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to bolt a rabbit

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To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.

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To escape.

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Of a plant, to grow quickly; to go to seed.

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Lettuce and spinach will bolt as the weather warms up.

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To swallow food without chewing it.

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To drink one's drink very quickly; to down a drink.

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Come on, everyone, bolt your drinks; I want to go to the next pub!

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To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.

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To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.

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To sift, especially through a cloth.

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To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour.

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Graham flour is unbolted flour.

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To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.

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To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.

He bolted after her and tackled her.

Her horse bolted, and she ran.

The door was locked from the outside, bolted shut.

Toby bolted to the first room on the right, the guest bedroom.

They've all bolted long ago! said the soldier, laughing for some reason and shaking himself free.

It jerked suddenly and bolted down the hallway with a snarl.

We were checking the mare and she bolted, knocking the stable boy down.

She bolted into the red and purple mess.

Evelyn bolted for the stairwell, unwilling to allow anyone but Kiera to see her without make-up, while Kiera went to the door.

Her heart bolted and her body convulsed.

The door to C was bolted with a new padlock.

The cage is connected by tubular clips, made in two pieces and bolted together, which slide over the ropes.

As they stopped in the ranch yard, the twins bolted from the house.

In one lithe movement he vaulted the gate and bolted toward the door.

Deidre bolted, silently willing a portal to appear as she sprinted into the fortress.

It bolted, leaving the woman exposed.

He was the one who bolted.

Let 's keep bolted dry tooling inside quarries which offer no other utility to us or anyone else.

Choose from moveable cabinets on wheels that can be rearranged or even repurposed, or permanent models bolted to the walls.

There was no sign of mayhem in the vehicle although a restraint was bolted to the rear floor.

Elated he was somewhat alive, she bolted to the kitchen for soup.

The supermodel all but bolted from the midst of the male forest around her.

Two bolted to his feet at the unfamiliar voice.

She bolted to her car, far enough ahead of any of the men that they couldn't stop her.

Deidre bolted, neither aware nor concerned where she went or where she ended up.

Jared turned to see the woman on the other side of the kitchen, and Katie bolted.

She grabbed Hannah.s hand and bolted for the back stairwell at the far end of the hall.

No strangers were in the house, and the doors were bolted.

Kiera climbed to her feet, barely caught herself from hitting the fountain with the next great tremor of the ground, and bolted for the door.

The boy froze then bolted.

Her gaze rose to the rider and her pulse bolted as she met that bittersweet chocolate gaze.

The rabbit leaped into the air, and bolted across the field, his white tail visible above the tall grass with each bound.

When she raced back to the house screaming for Alex, he bolted out of the back door.

The horse whinnied and bolted.

He slapped his horse on the rump and bolted.

In subsequent modifications the fishes were, as they continue to be, bolted to and through the rails, the sleepers being placed rather further apart and the joint being generally suspended between them.

In the earlier refineries the stills, the capacity of which varied from 25 to 80 barrels, usually consisted of a vertical cylinder, constructed of castor wrought-iron, with a boiler-plate bottom and a cast-iron dome, on which the " goose-neck " was bolted.

A frame is bolted to the beam and this carries the breast or mould-board to the fore-end of which the share is fitted.

A piece of iron called the slade is bolted to the bottom of the frame, and this, running along the sole of the furrow, acts as a base to the whole implement.

The declination axis is here represented by what are practically the trunnions or pivots of the tube, resting in bearings which are supported by the arms of a very massive cast-iron fork bolted to the upper end of the polar axis.

This axis is a hollow forging of nickel steel, of which the accurately turned pivots rest on bearings attached to cast-iron uprights bolted upon a massive cast-iron base plate.

At his death (672-673), order was so generally restored that "nobody had any more to fear for life or estate, and even the unprotected woman was safe in her house without having her door bolted."

Imperfect digestion is very often caused by defective teeth or by undue haste in eating, so that the food is bolted instead of being sufficiently masticated and insalivated.

If pillars made of rolled iron or steel are used, their different parts shall be riveted to each other and the beams and girders resting upon them shall have riveted or bolted connexions to unite them with the pillar.

If cast-iron pillars are used, each successive pillar shall be bolted to the one below it by at least four bolts not less than three-fourths of an inch in diameter, and the beams and girders shall be bolted to the pillars.

These straps shall be made of wrought-iron or steel, and shall be riveted or bolted to the flanges or to the webs of the beams or girders.

At their middles the beams are similarly clamped upon the top and bottom of a loop of watch-spring which is tightly stretched round a casting which is bolted upon the bed-plate.

To each cylinder a pair of similar nickel bands are led downwards from the top of a casting which is bolted to the frame.

The pulley is in halves to facilitate fixing, and when in place the sections C are joined by plates E, bolted or riveted to the rim.

Wooden pulleys are generally made in two halves, bolted together at the rim and nave, and are provided with wooden spokes dovetailed into the rim and secured by keys.