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bolt

The English word “bolt” has 34 meanings listed here.

  1. 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.
  2. Latch-related senses
  3. A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism.
  4. 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.
  5. A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a cartridge in a firearm.
  6. An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
  7. A stalk or scape (of garlic, onion, etc).
  8. A large roll of fabric or similar material, as a bolt of cloth.
  9. The standard linear measurement of canvas for use at sea: 39 yards.
  10. 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.
  11. A lightning spark, i.e., a lightning bolt. (See thunderbolt.)
  12. A sudden event, action or emotion.
  13. A sudden spring or start; a sudden leap aside.
  14. A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
  15. A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.
  16. A burst of speed or efficiency.
  17. To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.
  18. To affix in a crude or unnatural manner.
  19. To secure a door by locking or barring it.
  20. To flee, to depart, to accelerate away suddenly.
  21. To escape.
  22. To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted).
  23. To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
  24. To produce flower stalks and flowers or seeds quickly or prematurely; to form a bolt (stalk or scape); to go to seed.
  25. To swallow food without chewing it.
  26. To drink one's drink very quickly; to down a drink.
  27. To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.
  28. To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
  29. Suddenly; straight; unbendingly.
  30. To sift, especially through a cloth.
  31. To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour.
  32. To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
  33. To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
  34. A sieve, especially a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.
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