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<p><b>3.</b> <def>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.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A sliding catch, or fastening, as for a door or gate; the portion of a lock which is shot or withdrawn by the action of the key.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Away with him to prison! lay <b>bolts</b> enough upon him. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>A compact package or roll of cloth, as of canvas or silk, often containing about forty yards.</def>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>A bundle, as of oziers.</def>

<cs><col>Bolt auger</col>, <cd>an auger of large size; an auger to make holes for the bolts used by shipwrights.</cd> -- <col>Bolt and nut</col>, <cd>a metallic pin with a head formed upon one end, and a movable piece (the nut) screwed upon a thread cut upon the other end. See B, C, and D, in <i>illust<i>. above.</cd></cs>

<note>See <er>Tap bolt</er>, <er>Screw bolt</er>, and <er>Stud bolt</er>.</note>

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<hw>Bolt</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Bolted</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Bolting</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To shoot; to discharge or drive forth.</def>

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<p><b>2.</b> <def>To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.</def>

<blockquote>I hate when Vice can <b>bolt</b> her arguments. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To swallow without chewing; <as>as, to <ex>bolt</ex> food</as>.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(U. S. Politics)</fld> <def>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.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Sporting)</fld> <def>To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge, as conies, rabbits, etc.</def>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>To fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as a door, a timber, fetters; to shackle; to restrain.</def>

<blockquote>Let tenfold iron <b>bolt</b> my door. <i>Langhorn.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Which shackles accidents and <b>bolts</b> up change. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Bolt</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To start forth like a bolt or arrow; to spring abruptly; to come or go suddenly; to dart; <as>as, to <ex>bolt</ex> out of the room</as>.</def>

<blockquote>This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt, . . . And oft out of a bush doth <b>bolt</b>. <i>Drayton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.</def>

<blockquote>His cloudless thunder <b>bolted</b> on their heads. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To spring suddenly aside, or out of the regular path; <as>as, the horse <ex>bolted</ex></as>.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(U.S. Politics)</fld> <def>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.</def>

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<hw>Bolt</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In the manner of a bolt; suddenly; straight; unbendingly.</def>