bolt
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Is bolt a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of bolt?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (military, mechanical engineering) A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a cartridge in a firearm.
2. A large roll of fabric or similar material, as a bolt of cloth.
3. (US, politics) A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.US
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.Examples: "Bolt the vice to the bench."transitive
2. (transitive, figurative) To affix in a crude or unnatural manner.Examples: "Most languages are *not* based on C++. C++ is a complicated mess. It's C with object oriented features bolted on as an afterthought and no-one in their right mind would want to base another language on it."; "Going through the motions with an empty smile bolted on my face"figurativelytransitive
3. (transitive) To secure a door by locking or barring it.Examples: "Bolt the door."; "If that double-bolted land, Japan, is ever to become hospitable, it is the whale-ship alone to whom the credit will be due; for already she is on the threshold."transitive
4. (intransitive) To flee, to depart, to accelerate away suddenly.Examples: "Seeing the snake, the horse bolted."; "The actor forgot his line and bolted from the stage."; "This Pucke ſeems but a dreaming dolt, / Still vvalking like a ragged Colt, / And oft out of a buſh doth bolt, / Of purpoſe to deceiue vs, / And leading vs makes vs to ſtray."intransitive
5. (intransitive) To escape.intransitive
6. (transitive) To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted).Examples: "to bolt a rabbit"transitive
verb (English)
1. (law) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.Examples: "[…]the old habits of mooting or bolting caſes (i.e. of public disputations), might make the ſtudent more ſubtle and acute"
Definition source: Wiktionary