Definition of Bolt

Bolt

A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or that which resembles an arrow; a dart.

Lightning; a thunderbolt.

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.

A sliding catch, or fastening, as for a door or gate; the portion of a lock which is shot or withdrawn by the action of the key.

An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.

A compact package or roll of cloth, as of canvas or silk, often containing about forty yards.

A bundle, as of oziers.

To shoot; to discharge or drive forth.

To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.

To swallow without chewing; as, to bolt food.

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.

To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge, as conies, rabbits, etc.

To fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as a door, a timber, fetters; to shackle; to restrain.

To start forth like a bolt or arrow; to spring abruptly; to come or go suddenly; to dart; as, to bolt out of the room.

To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.

To spring suddenly aside, or out of the regular path; as, the horse bolted.

To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or a caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.

In the manner of a bolt; suddenly; straight; unbendingly.

A sudden spring or start; a sudden spring aside; as, the horse made a bolt.

A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.

A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.

To sift or separate the coarser from the finer particles of, as bran from flour, by means of a bolter; to separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.

To separate, as if by sifting or bolting; -- with out.

To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.

A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.

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Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
Mahatma Gandhi

There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.
Thomas Paine

The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key... and bolt the door at once.
Andrew Jackson

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
John Ciardi

But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
Walter Scott

I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record.
Robert Falcon Scott

Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.
Rita Coolidge

Without bureaus, committees, officials or emissaries to manufacture sentiment in his favor, without intrigue or effort on his part, Grant is the candidate whose supporters have never threatened to bolt.
Roscoe Conkling