Word Finder - bolts

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A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a cylindrical body that is threaded, with a larger head on one end. It can be inserted into an unthreaded hole up to the head, with a nut then threaded on the other end; a heavy machine screw.

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A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism.

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A bar of wood or metal dropped in horizontal hooks on a door and adjoining wall or between the two sides of a double door, to prevent the door(s) from being forced open.

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A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a cartridge in a firearm.

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A small personal-armour-piercing missile for short-range use, or (in common usage though deprecated by experts) a short arrow, intended to be shot from a crossbow or a catapult.

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A lightning spark, i.e., a lightning bolt.

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A sudden event, action or emotion.

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The problem's solution struck him like a bolt from the blue.

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A large roll of fabric or similar material, as a bolt of cloth.

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24 March 1774 - Newspaper: Stamford Mercury - "Mr. Cole, Basket-maker...has lost near 300 boults of rods" https//www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000254/17740324/001/0001

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A sudden spring or start; a sudden leap aside.

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The horse made a bolt.

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A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.

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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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An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.

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A burst of speed or efficiency.

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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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A sieve, especially a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.

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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.

The total cost per mile of such a line, including all bolts, nuts, fish-plates and fastenings, ready for laying,, delivered in the United Kingdom, is under Soo a mile.

Among the city's manufactures are oxide of tin and other chemicals, iron and steel, leather goods, automobiles and bicycles, electrical and telephone supplies, butted tubing, gas engines, screws and bolts, silk, lace and hosiery.

Across the river is Rock Falls (pop. in 1900, 2176), practically a suburb of Sterling, with foundries and machine-shops and manufactories of agricultural implements, barbed wire and bolts and rivets.

In the 10th tablet the goddess Sabitu, who, as guardian of the sea, first bolts her gate against Gilgamesh, after learning of his quest, helps him to pass in a ship across the sea.

More steel wire, wire nails, and bolts and nuts are made here than in any other city in the world (the total value for iron and steel products as classified by the census was, in 1905, $42,930,995, and the value of foundry and machine-shop products in the same year was $18,832,487), and more merchant vessels than in any other American city.

Cast iron stills are provided with a hemispherical head or dome, generally attached to the body of the still by bolts, and of sufficient size to allow for any frothing.

When these are held from turning, their frictional resistance may be adjusted by means of nuts on the screwed bolts which hold them together until the shaft revolves at a given speed.

Then the bolts sheared or the ironwork broke in a new place.

All that needed to be done was to fish the fractured ribs of the high arches, put oval holes in the fishes, and not screw up the bolts too tight.

It is found in practice that the stresses on the several members do not differ sensibly whether these members are pinned together with a single pin or more rigidly jointed by several bolts or rivets.

A heavy duty bracket is used to support the backside of the microwave along with bolts that secure the front end of the unit to the cabinet above it.

A clogged vacuum filter prevents air from flowing into the unit, and this is the basic nuts and bolts function of the vacuum itself.

Make sure all of the nuts, bolts, and screws are appropriately tightened.

Check all of the parts of the scooter before your child uses it each time, searching for loose nuts and bolts, frame and tire defects, and brake problems.

Limestone, brownstone and brick-clay also abound in the vicinity; and besides mines and quarries, the city has extensive manufactories of iron, steel, chains, and nuts and bolts.

In the last case they consist of any number of hollow cylindrical pillars, vertical or raking, turned and planed at the ends and united by a projection or socket and by flanges and bolts.

After 12 to 15 years the heads become "tired," and should be grubbed up. The first year's crop, known as the "maiden" crop, is of small value but should be cut and the ensuing years of maturity will yield crops of about 130 bolts, green, per acre, worth £9, 15s.

If whitened, the loss in bulk and in rejection being two-thirds, this would produce about 44 bolts, which at £30 per load of 80 bolts, the appreciated market value of 1907, would be worth £16, ios.

The village has various manufactures, including bolts and nuts, motors for racing boats and automobiles; there are also large planing and wood-moulding mills.

Houses are keyed up with " shaps," " face plates " and " bolts," and only kept from falling by leaning on one another.

In miscellaneous metal trades, embracing tinplate goods, wire workers, makers of stoves, grates, ranges and fire-arms, makers of bolts, nuts, rivets, screws and staples, and those occupied in several subsidiary trades, the number of operatives in 1901 amounted to 13,209.

Even the simple elements of rivets and bolts have produced immense developments since the days when bolts were made by hand, holes cored or hand-drilled, and rivets formed and closed by hand labour.

A structure is composed, of pieces,such as the stones of a building in masonry, the beams of a timber frame-work, the bars, plates and bolts of an iron bridge.

If the joint be provided either with projections and recesses, such as murtises and tenons, or with fastenings, such as pins or bolts, so as to resist displacement by sliding, the question of the utmost amount of the tangential resistance CQ which it is capable of exerting depends on the strength of such projections, recesses, or fastenings; and belongs to the subject of strength, and not to that of stability.

There are large glass, chemical and machine works; nuts and bolts are made, and lighthouse fittings are a specialty.

There are great iron and steel works, producing every kind of heavy goods used by railway and engineering works, such as boiler plates, rails, axles, tubes, bolts and nuts.

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.

The two halves of the nave are secured by bolts or rivets passing through the flanges F, and the pulley is connected to the shaft by a sunk key or by conical keys driven in between the shaft and the boss, which latter is bored to suit.

It has an Evangelical church, a modern château of the princes of Stolberg, with pretty grounds, and a high grade school, and manufactures metal wares, machines and iron screws and bolts.

Boiled food of any kind is unnatural to a horse, and is risky to give, being liable to produce colic, especially if the animal bolts its food when hungry, although it generally produces a glossy coat.

You may dodge arrows or bolts or use your shield to block them.

The recorder is slid securely onto two bolts that extrude from the wooden backboard.

Having spent a long time looking for natural belays, we decided to use bolts.

Use the four bolts to pull the whole assembly together slowly by tightening opposite bolts a little at a time.

With an oval block it is necessary only to loosen the bolts.

Pedestal base option can be bolted down with K1 rawl bolts, or K4 extended rawl bolts.

Penetrating captive bolts kill the animals most quickly, and percussion is also effective, if they are stuck before they come round.

The opening of the box is in the shape of lightning bolts.

He pulled out a sack and tore it into thin strips and tied a few to each of half a dozen crossbow bolts.

French windows should have one pair of key mounted mortice security bolts or key operated surface mounted bolts.

Four of us can't manage to combine lifting the thing up with doing up the pinch bolts.

Dropping to a crouch Darkhawk leveled his gnomish crossbow and fired three bolts at the beast but all three missed.

Protected by a 5-lever mortise deadlock or 2 key operated security bolts on all other external doors.

Then drill through the end posts and fix straining eye bolts.

We then came across a few fishplate bolts fitted with S&C nuts which are slightly bigger that the standard fishplate nut.

The blade bolts are too flimsy or instead they've used rivets.

The left foreleg and right rear leg were broken in casting and repaired with iron bolts.

Tetsuo has the power to kill his enemies by throwing what look like either psychic bolts or booger globs at them.

Supplied complete with cropped headed bolts & nuts for fixing into the glazing channels of aluminum greenhouses.

The template for the bolts is again located with pins on the worktop jig.