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A sliding catch, or fastening, as for a door or gate; the portion of a lock which is shot or withdrawn by the action of the key.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.
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.
To shoot; to discharge or drive forth.
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 utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
of Bolt
of Bolt
See Boultel.
A kind of fishing line. See Boulter.
One who bolts; esp.: (a) A horse which starts suddenly aside. (b) A man who breaks away from his party.
One who sifts flour or meal.
An instrument or machine for separating bran from flour, or the coarser part of meal from the finer; a sieve.
The head of a bolt.
A long, straight-necked, glass vessel for chemical distillations; -- called also a matrass or receiver.
of Bolt
A sifting, as of flour or meal.
A private arguing of cases for practice by students, as in the Inns of Court.