A (usually) metal fastener consisting of acylindrical body that is threaded, with a larger head on one end. It can be inserted into anunthreaded hole up to the head, with anut then threaded on the other end; a heavymachine screw.
There was the noise of abolt shot back, and the door opened a few inches, enough to show a long snout and a pair of sleepy blinking eyes.
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.
A small personal-armour-piercing missile for short-range use, or (in common usage though deprecated by experts) a shortarrow, intended to be shot from a crossbow or a catapult.
With abolt of fright he remembered that there was no bathroom in the Hobhouse Room. He leapt along the corridor in a panic, stopping by the long-case clock at the end where he flattened himself against the wall.
A large roll of fabric or similar material, as abolt of cloth.
Not only were the old sails being mended, but new sails were coming on board, andbolts of canvas, and coils of rigging; in short, everything betokened that the ship's preparations were hurrying to a close.
(nautical) The standard linear measurement ofcanvas for use at sea: 39yards.
In the event they lacked a proper midfieldbolt, with Toni Kroos and Sami Khedira huffing around in pursuit of the whizzing green machine. The centre-backs looked flustered, left to deal with three on two as Mexico broke. Löw’s 4-2-3-1 seemed antiquated and creaky, with the old World Cup shark Thomas Müller flat-footed in a wide position.
2013, Wong Yoon Wah,Durians Are Not the Only Fruit: Notes from the Tropics, Epigram Books,→ISBN:
All kinds of vegetables may be used as a topping, but the best are strongly flavoured ones without too much moisture, such as celery, garlicbolts, chives, scallions, or various beans (long beans, green beans etc.) ...
2017, Adam Brookes,The Spy's Daughter, Redhook,→ISBN:
She ordered Cat's Ear Noodles heaped with garlicbolts and tomatoes, the broth thick with cumin, laced with black vinegar. The girl caught her accent, the sibilant sing-song of the south, and smiled, tilting her head questioningly.
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2000 September 14, Brennan Young, “to all of you pro programmers out there.”, inmacromedia.flash[3] (Usenet):
Most languages are *not* based on C++. C++ is a complicated mess. It's C with object oriented featuresbolted on as an afterthought and no-one in their right mind would want to base another language on it.
2013, Days N' Daze, “Call in the Coroner”, inRogue Taxidermy:
Going through the motions with an empty smilebolted on my face
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.
ThisPucke ſeems but a dreaming dolt, / Still vvalking like a ragged Colt, / And oft out of a buſh dothbolt, / Of purpoſe to deceiue vs, / And leading vs makes vs to ſtray.
Lettuce and spinach willbolt as the weather warms up.
1982, Dorothy Hinshaw Patent, Diane E. Bilderback,Garden Secrets: A Guide to Understanding how Your Garden Grows and how You Can Help it Grow Even Better,→ISBN:
When an onionbolts and forms a flower stalk, the stem grows right up through the neck, forming a tough, fibrous tube that pierces the center of the bulb. The plant channels all its energy into this flower stalk, so no more fleshy […]
1995, Anne Raver, “Gandhi Gardening”, inDeep in the Green: An Exploration of Country Pleasures, New York, N.Y.:Alfred A. Knopf,→ISBN:
To be honest, this hasn't been my Garden of Eden year.[…] The lettuce turned bitter andbolted. The Green Comet broccoli was good, but my coveted Romanescos never headed up.
2011, Trina Clickner,A Miscellany of Garlic: From Paying Off Pyramids and Scaring Away Tigers to Inspiring Courage and Curing Hiccups, the Unusual Power Behind the World's Most Humble Vegetable, Simon and Schuster,→ISBN:
Hardneck garlicbolts, which means it produces a single flower stalk, also known as a scape. It is considered to be far tastier and “gourmet.” You can find hardneck garlic mainly at farmers' markets[…]
Though amid all the smoking horror and diabolism of a sea-fight, sharks will be seen longingly gazing up to the ship’s decks, like hungry dogs round a table where red meat is being carved, ready tobolt down every killed man that is tossed to them;
Some hawks and owlsbolt their prey whole, and after an interval of from twelve to twenty hours, disgorge pellets, which, as I know from experiments made in the Zoological Gardens, include seeds capable of germination.
(transitive) To drink one's drink very quickly; todown a drink.
Come on, everyone,bolt your drinks; I want to go to the next pub!
1990 December 9, Richard Braun, “A Whole New Day For The Party: Giving Us A Voice”, inGay Community News, volume18, number21, page 5:
John Silber charged that people whobolted the Democratic Party in this election are "Kamakaze[sic] liberals", beneath contempt and clearly too stupid to deserve to vote.
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Asieve, especially a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; abolter.
1885, Canada. Patent Office,The Canadian Patent Office Record and Register of Copyrights and Trade Marks, page279:
The combination, in a flourbolt, of a reel head having a throat near its outer edge for the passage of the tailings and a series of revolving adjustable beaters, substantially as set forth.
1886,The Mechanical News, page120:
We have a number of these reels in different mills that are bolting the break flour direct from the scalping reels and scalped through No. 8 cloth.[…] Now, gentlemen, they require a much less number to do a given amount of work than any other known machine orbolt, and require less space and power.
1896, United States. Patent Office,Decisions of the Commissioner of Patents and of the United States Courts in Patent and Trade-mark and Copyright Cases., page493:
As the material is agitated by the motion of thebolt, the flour falls through, while the smaller particles of bran are taken up by the current of air and carried off.
(vault):bolt in Géza Bárczi,László Országh,et al., editors,A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.Fifth ed., 1992:→ISBN.
(shop, store):bolt in Géza Bárczi,László Országh,et al., editors,A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.Fifth ed., 1992:→ISBN.
bolt in Nóra Ittzés, editor,A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031(work in progress; publisheda–ez as of 2024).
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