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  • English Word Bolt Definition A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
  • English Word Bolt Definition A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.
  • English Word Bolt Definition 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.
  • English Word Bolt Definition To separate, as if by sifting or bolting; -- with out.
  • English Word Bolt Definition To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
  • English Word Bolt Definition A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.
  • English Word Bolted Definition of Bolt
  • English Word Bolted Definition of Bolt
  • English Word Boltel Definition See Boultel.
  • English Word Bolter Definition One who bolts; esp.: (a) A horse which starts suddenly aside. (b) A man who breaks away from his party.
  • English Word Bolter Definition One who sifts flour or meal.
  • English Word Bolter Definition An instrument or machine for separating bran from flour, or the coarser part of meal from the finer; a sieve.
  • English Word Bolter Definition A kind of fishing line. See Boulter.
  • English Word Bolthead Definition A long, straight-necked, glass vessel for chemical distillations; -- called also a matrass or receiver.
  • English Word Bolthead Definition The head of a bolt.
  • English Word Bolting Definition of Bolt
  • English Word Bolting Definition of Bolt
  • English Word Bolting Definition A darting away; a starting off or aside.
  • English Word Bolting Definition A sifting, as of flour or meal.
  • English Word Bolting Definition A private arguing of cases for practice by students, as in the Inns of Court.
  • English Word Boltonite Definition A granular mineral of a grayish or yellowish color, found in Bolton, Massachusetts. It is a silicate of magnesium, belonging to the chrysolite family.
  • English Word Boltrope Definition A rope stitched to the edges of a sail to strengthen the sail.
  • English Word Boltsprit Definition See Bowsprit.
  • English Word Bolty Definition An edible fish of the Nile (genus Chromis).
  • English Word Bolus Definition A rounded mass of anything, esp. a large pill.
  • English Word Boluses Definition of Bolus
  • English Word Bolye Definition Same as Booly.
  • English Word Bom Definition A large American serpent, so called from the sound it makes.
  • English Word Bomb Definition A great noise; a hollow sound.
  • English Word Bomb Definition A shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired from mortars. See Shell.