Bit of lightning
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• | 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• | A sliding catch, or fastening, as for a door or gate; the portion of a lock which is shot or withdrawn by the action of the key.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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