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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.