Boltname

• 1

  A surname transferred from the nickname.

• 2

  A census-designated place in Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States, named after an early postmaster.

• 3

  An unincorporated community in the town of Franklin, Kewaunee County, Wisconsin, United States.

boltnoun詞源 1/bɒlt/

• 1

  A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a cylindrical body that is threaded, with a larger head on one end. It can be inserted into an unthreaded hole up to the head, with a nut then threaded on the other end; a heavy machine screw.

• 2

  Latch-related senses

  • There was the noise of a bolt shot back, and the door opened a few inches, enough to show a long snout and a pair of sleepy blinking eyes.
• 3

  Latch-related senses

• 4

  engineeringgovernmentmechanicalLatch-related senses

• 5

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

  • He shall to prison, and there die in boults.
  • Away with him to prison! Lay bolts enough upon him:
• 6

  A stalk or scape (of garlic, onion, etc).

  • All kinds of vegetables may be used as a topping, but the best are strongly flavoured ones without too much moisture, such as celery, garlic bolts, chives, scallions, or various beans (long beans, green beans etc.) ...
  • She ordered Cat's Ear Noodles heaped with garlic bolts 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.
• 7

  A large roll of fabric or similar material, as a bolt of cloth.

  • Mr. Cole, Basket-maker...has lost near 300 boults of rods
  • Not only were the old sails being mended, but new sails were coming on board, and bolts of canvas, and coils of rigging; in short, everything betokened that the ship's preparations were hurrying to a close.
• 8

  nauticaltransportA large roll of fabric or similar material, as a bolt of cloth.

boltverb詞源 1/bɒlt/

• 1

  To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.

  • Bolt the vice to the bench.
• 2

  To affix in a crude or unnatural manner.

  • Most languages are *not* based on C++. C++ is a complicated mess. It's C with object oriented features bolted on as an afterthought and no-one in their right mind would want to base another language on it.
  • Going through the motions with an empty smile bolted on my face
• 3

  To secure a bolt or bolts; to lock using a bolt.

  • Bolt the door.
  • 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.
• 4

  To flee, to depart, to accelerate away suddenly.

  • Seeing the snake, the horse bolted.
  • The actor forgot his line and bolted from the stage.
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  To escape.

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  To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted).

  • to bolt a rabbit
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  To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.

  • His cloudleſs thunder bolted on thir heads.
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  biologybotanynatural-sciencesTo produce flower stalks and flowers or seeds quickly or prematurely; to form a bolt (stalk or scape); to go to seed.

  • Lettuce and spinach will bolt as the weather warms up.
  • When an onion bolts 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 […]

boltadv詞源 1/bɒlt/

• 1

  Suddenly; straight; unbendingly.

  • The soldiers stood bolt upright for inspection.
  • [He] came bolt up against the heavy dragoon.

boltverb詞源 2/bɒlt/

• 1

  To sift, especially through a cloth.

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  To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour.

  • Graham flour is unbolted flour; in contrast, some other flours have been bolted.
  • Coming to a farmer's house, he takes a liking to a "good handsome maid," that was there, and in the night does her work for her, at breaking hemp and flax, bolting meal, etc.
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  To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.

  • ill schooled in bolted language
  • Time and Nature will Bolt out the Truth of Things.
• 4

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

  • […]the old habits of mooting or bolting caſes (i.e. of public disputations), might make the ſtudent more ſubtle and acute

boltnoun詞源 2/bɒlt/

• 1

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

  • The combination, in a flour bolt, 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.
  • 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 or bolt, and require less space and power.