(n.) 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.
(n.) Lightning; a thunderbolt.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A sliding catch, or fastening, as for a door or gate; the portion of a lock which is shot or withdrawn by the action of the key.
(n.) An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
(n.) A compact package or roll of cloth, as of canvas or silk, often containing about forty yards.
(n.) A bundle, as of oziers.
(v. t.) To shoot; to discharge or drive forth.
(v. t.) To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
(v. t.) To swallow without chewing; as, to bolt food.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge, as conies, rabbits, etc.
(v. t.) To fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as a door, a timber, fetters; to shackle; to restrain.
(v. i.) 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.
(v. i.) To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
(v. i.) To spring suddenly aside, or out of the regular path; as, the horse bolted.
(v. i.) 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.
(adv.) In the manner of a bolt; suddenly; straight; unbendingly.
(v. i.) A sudden spring or start; a sudden spring aside; as, the horse made a bolt.
(v. i.) A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
(v. i.) A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To separate, as if by sifting or bolting; -- with out.
(v. t.) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
(n.) A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Song appeared to give Bolt a good luck charm to wear around his wrist.
(2) I’m just going to prepare myself for next year, for the Olympics and come out even stronger.” Questioned over Bolt’s joking accusation, Gatlin added: “I want my money back.
(3) A handful of the global superstars – Usain Bolt and now Mo Farah – have enhanced their personal value, but most have driven themselves relentlessly for the glory alone.
(4) The treatment consisted of bolting the capitular epiphysis (head) of the femur with a homologous bone chip.
(5) Trying to solve those problems by closing the borders is like trying to deal with rising damp by bolting your front door Trying to solve those problems by closing the borders is like trying to deal with rising damp by bolting your front door.
(6) While there are smiles in the Ennis-Hill household, the organisers of the Commonwealth Games will be ruing the loss of a major star – especially as Britain's 5,000m and 10,000m Olympic gold medallist Mo Farah has admitted that the games are "not on my list" for 2014, and the 100m world record holder Usain Bolt is yet to commit.
(7) The bolt penetrated deeply into the pelvis, through the acetabulum, the joint cavity and the head of the femur leading to fixation of the hip.
(8) The prince has, after all, hardly kept his hobby horses bolted up in the stables over the years.
(9) The etiology was the following: 34 wounds by knife, 3 due to ricocheted bolt and 16 by abdominal contusions.
(10) Fragmentation also caused more brain damage and inhibition of spinal reflexes than a solid free bullet or captive bolt.
(11) Locking both nails with a threaded pin and two bolts limits the secondary depression of the fracture by the S-shaped lateral nail.
(12) Virgin Media has signed up as a top-tier sponsorship partner of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games , with the expectation that brand ambassadors and Olympic champions Mo Farah and Usain Bolt will front a major advertising campaign next year to support the deal.
(13) After the films have been approved, the lateral film holder bolts on top of the AP film holder.
(14) Let them wallow in the content that Bolt provides them, carefully calibrated to both infuriate Australia’s dwindling bigoted minority while reassuring them.
(15) Bolt's record-setting runs were quantum leaps, in the truest sense of the term: a shift from one state to another, without passing through the conventional intermediate stages.
(16) We all have a duty to raise money as a member for parliament.” Bolt persisted by asking: “I want to know.
(17) It is shameful.” Brandis and Abbott promised the changes before the election as a result of the case against the conservative columnist Andrew Bolt.
(18) A News Ltd columnist and political commentator, Andrew Bolt, who was found to have breached the Racial Discrimination Act in two articles he wrote in 2009, was among those to have blamed Goodes and the Indigenous round incident for his recent treatment.
(19) "Flush anything nasty away and then lock them with the bolts at the top."
(20) The effects were calculated for the detection of sounds of enemy personnel (speech, movement noises) or their equipment (rifle bolt, tank, generator).
Bolter
Definition:
(n.) One who bolts; esp.: (a) A horse which starts suddenly aside. (b) A man who breaks away from his party.
(n.) One who sifts flour or meal.
(n.) An instrument or machine for separating bran from flour, or the coarser part of meal from the finer; a sieve.
(n.) A kind of fishing line. See Boulter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hope u feel better xx” Bird told Channel 4’s political editor Michael Crick: “Natasha Bolter and I were in a consensual relationship between 18 September and 2 November, well after her admission to the list of approved candidates.
(2) Bolter has since abandoned her bid to stand in South Basildon in Essex.
(3) 2.31am BST Turnbull hurled his observation that the Bloguer Bolter, (with his treachery theory), was losing a certain amount of .. shall we say .. grip .. while attending Stay Smart Online week.
(4) Bird told the BBC : “We were in a relationship briefly, but that relationship developed well after she had been admitted to the approved candidates list, so her selection was not connected to this.” He added: “Natasha Bolter’s candidate assessment was conducted entirely within the rules, as the party has already verified.
(5) Bolter said she had decided to speak out to highlight the pressure on women to sleep with men in powerful posts to enhance their careers.
(6) She describes advocates of withdrawal as “bolters”, and adds: “They pose as the great patriots, but would any prime minister or British monarch (at least since Elizabeth I refused to marry a continental king) develop a clear policy to reduce the UK’s influence in Europe?
(7) In October, Smith was deselected without explanation, and a new contest was ordered, which was due to include Neil Hamilton, the former Conservative minister, and Natasha Bolter, a former Labour supporter.
(8) In October, Smith was deselected as the candidate for the Essex seat without explanation and a new contest was ordered, which was due to include Neil Hamilton, the former Tory minister, and Natasha Bolter, a former Labour supporter.
(9) We do not have a monopoly on stupidity, I promise you.” Farage said the problems his party had suffered in Basildon – where former Conservative MP Neil Hamilton withdrew his candidacy after questions about his expenses, and another would-be candidate Natasha Bolter made allegations of sexual harassment against the party’s general secretary – were caused by a struggle to secure what might be one of Ukip’s most winnable seats.
(10) Subsequent to that, Natasha Bolter and I were in a consensual relationship.
(11) The contest descended into chaos as questions were raised by Ukip about Hamilton’s expenses and Bolter became involved in a controversy about whether the party’s general secretary, Roger Bird, had made inappropriate sexual advances towards her.
(12) Bolter, a teacher, said: “He interviewed me for my PPC [prospective parliamentary candidate] exams … He interviewed me on policy.
(13) Bolter admitted sending friendly texts signed with an “x”.
(14) Bolter told the Times that Bird, who was involved in vetting candidates, made unwanted advances to her on the day she was interviewed after taking her to the Oxford and Cambridge Club in London.
(15) One of the other most remarked-upon features of Lessing's life is that, along with Muriel Spark, who unbeknown to her at the time lived nearby in Rhodesia, she is one of literature's most famous bolters - something for which she has been given a hard time, for refusing to demonstrate insufficient breastbeating.
(16) The suspended general secretary of Ukip, Roger Bird, has fought back in the battle to save his career amid claims that he sexually harassed Natasha Bolter , who until this week was a prominent female member of the party.
(17) I felt a little bit uncomfortable because it’s as though he found me attractive and he wanted to get to know me in a more intimate way as opposed to just being a good representative for the party.” At a subsequent meeting at his office Bird asked Bolter whether she would like to go for dinner though he insisted on buying her a dress because she was not dressed smartly enough.
(18) "Tom is a bit of a bolter – he's come from left field," added McNamara.
(19) Bolter told Newsnight: “If I would have slept with him, I would of probably had an easier time than I have had in Ukip.
(20) As Bird fought back by releasing intimate text messages from the former Labour supporter, Bolter said she assumed it was “party protocol” when he invited her to continue the interview at the Oxford and Cambridge Club in London.