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 |
Curb roof
() A roof having a double slope, or composed, on each side, of two parts which have unequal inclination |
Cuttoo plate
() A hood over the end of a wagon wheel hub to keep dirt away from the axle. |
Mansard roof
() A hipped curb roof |
Plate
(n.) A flat, or nearly flat, piece of metal, the thickness of which is small in comparison with the other dimensions |
Plate
(n.) Metallic armor composed of broad pieces. |
Plate
(n.) Domestic vessels and utensils, as flagons, dishes, cups, etc., wrought in gold or silver. |
Plate
(n.) Metallic ware which is plated, in distinction from that which is genuine silver or gold. |
Plate
(n.) A small, shallow, and usually circular, vessel of metal or wood, or of earth glazed and baked, from which food is eaten at table. |
Plate
(n.) A piece of money, usually silver money. |
Plate
(n.) A piece of metal on which anything is engraved for the purpose of being printed |
Plate
(n.) A page of stereotype, electrotype, or the like, for printing from |
Plate
(n.) That part of an artificial set of teeth which fits to the mouth, and holds the teeth in place. It may be of gold, platinum, silver, rubber, celluloid, etc. |
Plate
(n.) A horizontal timber laid upon a wall, or upon corbels projecting from a wall, and supporting the ends of other timbers |
Plate
(n.) A roundel of silver or tinctured argent. |
Plate
(n.) A sheet of glass, porcelain, metal, etc., with a coating that is sensitive to light. |
Plate
(n.) A prize giving to the winner in a contest. |
Plate
(v. t.) To cover or overlay with gold, silver, or other metals, either by a mechanical process, as hammering, or by a chemical process, as electrotyping. |
Plate
(v. t.) To cover or overlay with plates of metal |
Plate
(v. t.) To adorn with plated metal |
Plate
(v. t.) To beat into thin, flat pieces, or laminae. |
Plate
(v. t.) To calender |
Plate-gilled
(a.) Having flat, or leaflike, gills, as the bivalve mollusks. |
Roof
(n.) The cover of any building, including the roofing (see Roofing) and all the materials and construction necessary to carry and maintain the same upon the walls or other uprights. In the case of a building with vaulted ceilings protected by an outer roof, some writers call the vault the roof, and the outer protection the roof mask. It is better, however, to consider the vault as the ceiling only, in cases where it has farther covering. |
Roof
(n.) That which resembles, or corresponds to, the covering or the ceiling of a house |
Roof
(n.) The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein. |