bolt : Idioms & Phrases

• (Machinery), a bolt barbed or jagged at its butt or tang to make it hold the more firmly.

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• 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 illust. above.

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• an auger of large size; an auger to make holes for the bolts used by shipwrights.

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• noun an implement for cutting bolts
  

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• verb drink down entirely
  drink down; pour down; pop; belt down; down; kill; toss off.
  
  • He downed three martinis before dinner
  • She killed a bottle of brandy that night
  • They popped a few beer after work
• verb eat a large amount of food quickly
  gobble up; shovel in; garbage down.
  
  • The children gobbled down most of the birthday cake

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• noun a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder
  thunderbolt; bolt.
  

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• verb leave suddenly and as if in a hurry
  run out; bolt; run off; beetle off.
  
  • The listeners bolted when he discussed his strange ideas
  • When she started to tell silly stories, I ran out

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• . (a) Perfectly upright; perpendicular; straight up; unbendingly erect. Addison. (b) On the back at full length. Obs.

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• noun a hole through which an animal may bolt when pursued into its burrow or den
  

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• noun a roundheaded bolt for timber; threaded along part of the shank; inserted into holes already drilled
  

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• (a) (Naut.) The bolt at the lower end of the chain plate, which fastens it to the vessel's side. (b) A bolt with a chain attached for drawing it out of position.

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Dread"-bolt`ed adjective

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1. Armed with dreaded bolts. "Dread-bolted thunder." Poetic Shak.

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• noun a bolt that has an attachment that expands as the bolt is driven into a surface
  

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• in milling, a gauze-covered, revolving, cylindrical frame or reel, for sifting the flour from the refuse contained in the meal yielded by the stones.

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• . (a) A screw bolt whose head is countersunk, so as to be flush with a surface. (b) A sliding bolt let into the face or edge of a door, so as to be flush therewith.

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• a bolt retained by a key, gib, or cotter passing through a slot.

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• a bolt having a split end to receive a fox wedge.

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• (Carp.), a bolt with a chamfered or faceted head.

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• a bolt with a nicked or barbed shank which resists retraction, as when leaded into stone.

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• a bolt for fastening two pieces, as of wood, one endwise to the other, having a nut embedded in one of the pieces.

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• a bolt which has a mortise near the end, and is secured by a cotter or wedge instead of a nut.

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• noun a heavy woodscrew with a square or hexagonal head that is driven in with a wrench
  lag screw.
  

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• (Mach.), a bolt terminating in a long, flat extension which takes the place of a head; a strap bolt.

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• noun 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
  

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• noun a fastener made by screwing a nut onto a threaded bolt
  

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• noun detailed practical information about how something works or how something can be accomplished
  

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• (Naut.), fixtures connected with preventers to reënforce other rigging.

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• an iron pin with barbs on its shank to retain it in place.

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• the bar in a carriage to which the traces are attached; a whiffletree. Eng.

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• noun a bolt that cannot be moved from outside the door or gate
  safety lock.
  

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• a bolt having a screw thread on its shank, in distinction from a key bolt. See 1st Bolt, 3.

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• a shackle.

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• a bolt with a flaring head, for fastening shoes on sleigh runners.

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• (Mach.), a bolt that passes through a thimble that is placed between the parts connected by the bolt.

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• . See Stud bolt, under Stud, a stem.

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• (Mech.), a bolt or short rod, connecting opposite plates, so as to prevent them from being bulged out when acted upon by a pressure which tends to force them apart, as in the leg of a steam boiler.

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• (Naut.), a large ringbolt in a ship's deck, to which the deck stoppers are hooked.

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• noun a small machine bolt
  

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• a bolt of which one end is a flat bar of considerable length.

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• a bolt with threads on both ends, to be screwed permanently into a fixed part at one end and receive a nut upon the other; called also standing bolt.

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• a bolt with a head on one end and a thread on the other end, to be screwed into some fixed part, instead of passing through the part and receiving a nut. See Illust. under Bolt.

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• a bolt which passes through all the thickness or layers of that which it fastens, or in which it is fixed.

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• to examine thoroughly, so as to separate or discover everything important.

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• noun a fastener consisting of a threaded bolt and a hinged spring-loaded toggle; used to fasten objects to hollow walls
  

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Wrain"-bolt` noun

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1. Same as Wringbolt.

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