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BOLT,n. L. pello.
1. An arrow a dart a pointed shaft.
2. A strong cylindrical pin, of iron or other metal, used to fasten a door, a plank, a chain, &c. In ships, bolts are used in the sides and decks, and have different names, as rag-bolts, eye-bolts, ring-bolts,chain-bolts, &c. In gunnery, there are prise-bolts, transom-bolts, traverse-bolts, and bracket-bolts.
3. A thunder-bolt a stream of lightning, so named from its darting like a bolt.
4. The quantity of twenty-eight ells of canvas.
BOLT, To fasten or secure with a bolt, or iron pin, whether a door, a plank, fetters or any thing else.
1. To fasten to shackle to restrain.
2. To blurt out to utter or throw out precipitately.
I hate when vice can bolt her arguments.
In this sense it is often followed by out.
3. To sift or separate bran from flour. In America this term is applied only to the operation performed in mills.
4. Among sportsmen, to start or dislodge, used of coneys.
5. To examine by sifting to open or separate the parts of a subject, to find the truth generally followed by out. "Time and nature will bolt out the truth of things." Inelegant.
6. To purify to purge. Unusual.
7. To discuss or argue as at Gray's inn, where cases are privately discussed by students and barristers.
BOLT, To shoot forth suddenly to spring out with speed and suddenness to start forth like a bolt commonly followed by out as, to bolt out of the house, or out of a den.
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Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
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Entry for 'Bolt'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/b/bolt.html.
