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Bolt
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.
Pronunciation: /bɒlt/, /bəʊlt/
What “Bolt” means
Noun
- 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.
- Latch-related senses
- Latch-related senses
- Latch-related senses
- An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
Verb
- To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.
- To affix in a crude or unnatural manner.
- To secure a bolt or bolts; to lock using a bolt.
- To flee, to depart, to accelerate away suddenly.
- To escape.
Adv
- Suddenly; straight; unbendingly.
Verb
- To sift, especially through a cloth.
- To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour.
- To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
- To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
Where the word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeld- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *bʰóldos? Proto-Germanic *bultaz Proto-West Germanic *bolt Old English bolt Middle English bolt English bolt From Middle English bolt, from Old English bolt, from Proto-West Germanic *bolt, from Proto-Germanic *bultaz, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeld- (“to knock, strike”). Compare Lithuanian beldu (“I knock”), baldas (“pole for striking”). Akin to Dutch and West Frisian bout, German Bolz or Bolzen, Danish bolt, Swedish bult, Icelandic bolti. The association of thunder and lightning with 'bolts' is found back into prehistory in many cultures, at least in Eurasia. It comes from the long-standing widespread belief that lightning was caused by bolts, darts, or stones hurtling down from the sky to the earth. This belief was still regarded as commonplace until at least 1929.
From Middle English bulten, from Anglo-Norman buleter, Old French bulter (modern French bluter), from a Germanic source originally meaning "bag, pouch" cognate with Middle High German biuteln (“to sift”), from Proto-Germanic *buzdô (“beetle, grub, swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰūs- (“to move quickly”). Cognate with Dutch buidel.
Meanings and etymology from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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