 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
bolted
adjective: firmly fastened or secured against opening; "windows and
doors were all fast"; "a locked closet"; "left the
house properly secured" [syn: {barred}, {fast}, {latched},
{locked}, {secured}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bolt \Bolt\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Bolted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Bolting}.]
1. To shoot; to discharge or drive forth.
2. To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
I hate when Vice can bolt her arguments. --Milton.
3. To swallow without chewing; as, to bolt food; often used
with down.
4. (U. S. Politics) 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.
5. (Sporting) To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge,
as conies, rabbits, etc.
6. To fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as
a door, a timber, fetters; to shackle; to restrain.
Let tenfold iron bolt my door. --Langhorn.
Which shackles accidents and bolts up change.
--Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bolt \Bolt\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Bolted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Bolting}.] [OE. bolten, boulten, OF. buleter, F. bluter, fr.
Ll. buletare, buratare, cf. F. bure coarse woolen stuff; fr.
L. burrus red. See {Borrel}, and cf. {Bultel}.]
1. 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.
He now had bolted all the flour. --Spenser.
Ill schooled in bolted language. --Shak.
2. To separate, as if by sifting or bolting; -- with out.
Time and nature will bolt out the truth of things.
--L'Estrange.
3. (Law) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as
cases at law. --Jacob.
{To bolt to the bran}, to examine thoroughly, so as to
separate or discover everything important. --Chaucer.
This bolts the matter fairly to the bran. --Harte.
The report of the committee was examined and sifted
and bolted to the bran. --Burke.
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