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 |
Double-lock
(v. t.) To lock with two bolts |
Fore-night
(n.) The evening between twilight and bedtime. |
Lock
(n.) A tuft of hair |
Lock
(n.) Anything that fastens |
Lock
(n.) A fastening together or interlacing |
Lock
(n.) A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock. |
Lock
(n.) The barrier or works which confine the water of a stream or canal. |
Lock
(n.) An inclosure in a canal with gates at each end, used in raising or lowering boats as they pass from one level to another |
Lock
(n.) That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is exploded |
Lock
(n.) A device for keeping a wheel from turning. |
Lock
(n.) A grapple in wrestling. |
Lock
(v. t.) To fasten with a lock, or as with a lock |
Lock
(v. t.) To prevent ingress or access to, or exit from, by fastening the lock or locks of |
Lock
(v. t.) To fasten in or out, or to make secure by means of, or as with, locks |
Lock
(v. t.) To link together |
Lock
(v. t.) To furnish with locks |
Lock
(v. t.) To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him. |
Lock
(v. i.) To become fast, as by means of a lock or by interlacing |
Lock-down
(n.) A contrivance to fasten logs together in rafting |
Lock hospital
() A hospital for the treatment of venereal diseases. |
Lock step
() A mode of marching by a body of men going one after another as closely as possible, in which the leg of each moves at the same time with the corresponding leg of the person before him. |
Lock stitch
() A peculiar sort of stitch formed by the locking of two threads together, as in the work done by some sewing machines. See Stitch. |
Lock-weir
(n.) A waste weir for a canal, discharging into a lock chamber. |
Night
(n.) That part of the natural day when the sun is beneath the horizon, or the time from sunset to sunrise |
Night
(n.) Darkness |
| one-night stand | a performance in one place on one night only |
| bolt | a sudden abandonment (as from a political party) |
nightlife
night life | the activity of people seeking nighttime diversion (as at the theater, a nightclub, etc.), a futile search for intelligent nightlife, in the summer the nightlife shifts to the dance clubs |
| night game | a game played under artificial illumination at night |
| nightlife night life | the entertainment available to people seeking nighttime diversion |
| dash bolt | the act of moving with great haste, he made a dash for the door |
| lock | any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured |
| one-night stand | a brief sexual encounter lasting only for a single night, he ran through a series of loveless one-night stands |
| watch night | a devotional service (especially on New Year's Eve) |
| night-stop | a break in a journey for the night |
| night bird | any bird associated with night: owl, nightingale, nighthawk, etc |
| night raven | any bird that cries at night |
owl
bird of Minerva
bird of night
hooter | nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes |
| night lizard | small secretive nocturnal lizard of southwestern North America and Cuba, bear live young |
night snake
Hypsiglena torquata | nocturnal prowler of western United States and Mexico |
night heron
night raven | nocturnal or crepuscular herons |
blackrowned night heron
Nycticorax nycticorax | night heron of both Old and New Worlds |
yellowrowned night heron
Nyctanassa violacea | North American night heron |
airlock
air lock | a chamber that provides access to space where air is under pressure |
| 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 |
cabaret
nightclub
night club
club nightspot | a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink, don't expect a good meal at a cabaret, the gossip columnist got his information by visiting nightclubs every night, he played the drums at a jazz club |
| carriage bolt | a roundheaded bolt for timber, threaded along part of the shank, inserted into holes already drilled |
| combination lock | lock that can be opened only by turning dials in a special sequence |
| 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 |
| expansion bolt | a bolt that has an attachment that expands as the bolt is driven into a surface |
lag screw
lag bolt | a heavy woodscrew with a square or hexagonal head that is driven in with a wrench |
| lever lock | a lock whose tumblers are levers that must be raised to a given position so that the bolt can move |
| lock | a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed |
| lock ignition lock | a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key |
| lock lock chamber | enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level, used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it |
| lock | a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun |
| lock-gate | a gate that can be locked |
lockring
lock ring
lock washer | washer that prevents a nut from loosening |
| 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 |
| night bell | a doorbell to be used at night |
| night latch | doorlock operated by a knob on the inside and a key on the outside |
| night-light | light (as a candle or small bulb) that burns in a bedroom at night (as for children or invalids) |
| night-line | a fishing line with baited hooks left in the water to catch fish over night |
| 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 |
safety catch
safety lock | guard consisting of a locking device that prevents a weapon from being fired |
sash fastener
sash lock
window lock | a lock attached to the sashes of a double hung window that can fix both in the shut position |
| Saturday night special | a cheap handgun that is easily obtained |
| 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 |
vapor lock
vapour lock | a stoppage in a pipeline caused by gas bubbles (especially a stoppage that develops in hot weather in an internalombustion engine when fuel in the gas line boils and forms bubbles that block the flow of gasoline to the carburetor) |