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.
Lightning; a thunderbolt.
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.
A sliding catch, or fastening, as for a door or gate; the portion of a lock which is shot or withdrawn by the action of the key.
An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
A compact package or roll of cloth, as of canvas or silk, often containing about forty yards.
A bundle, as of oziers.
A sudden spring or start; a sudden spring aside; as, the horse made a bolt.
A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.
A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.
To shoot; to discharge or drive forth.
To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
To swallow without chewing; as, to bolt food; often used with down.
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.
To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge, as conies, rabbits, etc.
To fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as a door, a timber, fetters; to shackle; to restrain.
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.
To separate, as if by sifting or bolting; - with out.
To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
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.
To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
To spring suddenly aside, or out of the regular path; as, the horse bolted.
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.
In the manner of a bolt; suddenly; straight; unbendingly.
A metallic pin with a head, used for uniting two plates or pieces of material together, by passing it through them and then beating or pressing down the point so that it shall spread out and form a second head; a pin or bolt headed or clinched at both ends.
To fasten with a rivet, or with rivets; as, to rivet two pieces of iron.
To spread out the end or point of, as of a metallic pin, rod, or bolt, by beating or pressing, so as to form a sort of head.
Hence, to fasten firmly; to make firm, strong, or immovable; as, to rivet friendship or affection.