Streak of lightning

Publish date: 2024-06-18
•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.•Lightning; a thunderbolt.•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cut upon the other end.•A sliding catch, or fastening, as for a door or gate; the portion of a lock which is shot or withdrawn by the action of the key.•An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.•A compact package or roll of cloth, as of canvas or silk, often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.•To shoot; to discharge or drive forth.•To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.•To swallow without chewing; as, to bolt food.•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 cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge, as conies, rabbits, etc.•To fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as a door, a timber, fetters; to shackle; to restrain.•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.•To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.•To spring suddenly aside, or out of the regular path; as, the horse bolted.•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.•In the manner of a bolt; suddenly; straight; unbendingly.•A sudden spring or start; a sudden spring aside; as, the horse made a bolt.•A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.•A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.•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.•To separate, as if by sifting or bolting; -- with out.•To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.•A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.

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