Bolt (n.) A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow |
Bolt (n.) Lightning |
Bolt (n.) 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. |
Bolt (n.) A sliding catch, or fastening, as for a door or gate |
Bolt (n.) An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner |
Bolt (n.) A compact package or roll of cloth, as of canvas or silk, often containing about forty yards. |
Bolt (n.) A bundle, as of oziers. |
Bolt (v. t.) To shoot |
Bolt (v. t.) To utter precipitately |
Bolt (v. t.) To swallow without chewing |
Bolt (v. t.) 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. |
Bolt (v. t.) To cause to start or spring forth |
Bolt (v. t.) To fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as a door, a timber, fetters |
Bolt (v. i.) To start forth like a bolt or arrow |
Bolt (v. i.) To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt. |
Bolt (v. i.) To spring suddenly aside, or out of the regular path |
Bolt (v. i.) To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or a caucus with which one has been connected |
Bolt (adv.) In the manner of a bolt |
Bolt (v. i.) A sudden spring or start |
Bolt (v. i.) A sudden flight, as to escape creditors. |
Bolt (v. i.) A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected |
Bolt (v. t.) To sift or separate the coarser from the finer particles of, as bran from flour, by means of a bolter |
Bolt (v. t.) To separate, as if by sifting or bolting |
Bolt (v. t.) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law. |
Bolt (n.) A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal |
Cylinder (n.) A solid body which may be generated by the rotation of a parallelogram round one its sides |
Cylinder (n.) The space inclosed by any cylindrical surface. The space may be limited or unlimited in length. |
Cylinder (n.) Any hollow body of cylindrical form |
Cylinder (n.) The chamber of a steam engine in which the piston is moved by the force of steam. |
Cylinder (n.) The barrel of an air or other pump. |
Cylinder (n.) The revolving platen or bed which produces the impression or carries the type in a cylinder press. |
Cylinder (n.) The bore of a gun |
Cylinder (n.) The revolving square prism carrying the cards in a Jacquard loom. |
Wrain-bolt (n.) Same as Wringbolt. |
bolt | a sudden abandonment (as from a political party) |
dash bolt | the act of moving with great haste, he made a dash for the door |
bolt | a screw that screws into a nut to form a fastener |
bolt deadbolt | the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key |
bolt | a sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech |
bolt | a roll of cloth or wallpaper of a definite length |
bolt cutter | an implement for cutting bolts |
brake cylinder hydraulic brake cylinder master cylinder | a cylinder that contains brake fluid that is compressed by a piston |
carriage bolt | a roundheaded bolt for timber, threaded along part of the shank, inserted into holes already drilled |
cylinder | a cylindrical container for oxygen or compressed air |
cylinder piston chamber | a chamber within which piston moves |
cylinder head | a detachable plate that covers the closed end of a cylinder chamber in a reciprocating engine or pump |
cylinder lock | a lock in which a cylinder rotates to move a bolt, tumblers are pins, inserting the key lifts and aligns the pins to free the cylinder to rotate |
engine block cylinder block block | a metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling ducts of an engine, the engine had to be replaced because the block was cracked |
expansion bolt | a bolt that has an attachment that expands as the bolt is driven into a surface |
flatbed press cylinder press | a printing press where the type is carried on a flat bed under a cylinder that holds paper and rolls over the type |
graduated cylinder | a cylindrical graduate |
lag screw lag bolt | a heavy woodscrew with a square or hexagonal head that is driven in with a wrench |
machine bolt | a bolt with a square or hexagonal head on one end and a threaded shaft on the other end, tightened with a wrench, used to connect metal parts |
nut and bolt | a fastener made by screwing a nut onto a threaded bolt |
safety bolt safety lock | a bolt that cannot be moved from outside the door or gate |
stove bolt | a small machine bolt |
toggle bolt | a fastener consisting of a threaded bolt and a hinged spring-loaded toggle, used to fasten objects to hollow walls |
nuts and bolts | detailed practical information about how something works or how something can be accomplished |
bolt-hole | a hole through which an animal may bolt when pursued into its burrow or den |
thunderbolt bolt bolt of lightning | a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder |
cylinder | a solid bounded by a cylindrical surface and two parallel planes (the bases) |
element of a cylinder | a straight line running the length of the cylinder |
cylinder | a surface generated by rotating a parallel line around a fixed line |
bolt | make or roll into bolts, bolt fabric |
gobble bolt | eat hastily without proper chewing, Don't bolt your food! |
garbage down gobble up shovel in bolt down | eat a large amount of food quickly, The children gobbled down most of the birthday cake |
toss off pop bolt down belt down pour down down drink down kill | drink down entirely, He downed three martinis before dinner, She killed a bottle of brandy that night, They popped a few beer after work |
bolt | swallow hastily |
bolt | secure or lock with a bolt, bolt the door |
bolt | move or jump suddenly, She bolted from her seat |
run off run out bolt bolt out beetle off | leave suddenly and as if in a hurry, The listeners bolted when he discussed his strange ideas, When she started to tell silly stories, I ran out |
abscond bolt absquatulate decamp run off go off make off | run away, usually includes taking something or somebody along, The thief made off with our silver, the accountant absconded with the cash from the safe |
rigidly stiffly bolt | in a rigid manner, the body was rigidly erect, he sat bolt upright |
bang slap slapdash smack bolt | directly, he ran bang into the pole, ran slap into her |