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Fasten :: Fasten (a.) To fix firmly; to make fast; to secure, as by a knot, lock, bolt, etc.; as, to fasten a chain to the feet; to fasten a door or window..

Iron-sick :: Iron-sick (a.) Having the ironwork loose or corroded; -- said of a ship when her bolts and nails are so eaten with rust that she has become leaky.

Spar :: Spar (v. t.) To bolt; to bar.

Headrope :: Headrope (n.) That part of a boltrope which is sewed to the upper edge or head of a sail.

Thunderbolt :: Thunderbolt (n.) Something resembling lightning in suddenness and effectiveness.

Shroud :: Shroud (n.) A set of ropes serving as stays to support the masts. The lower shrouds are secured to the sides of vessels by heavy iron bolts and are passed around the head of the lower masts.

Bolt :: Bolt (v. t.) 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..

Deadlatch :: Deadlatch (n.) A kind of latch whose bolt may be so locked by a detent that it can not be opened from the inside by the handle, or from the outside by the latch key..

Bolting :: Bolting (n.) A private arguing of cases for practice by students, as in the Inns of Court..

Thunderstone :: Thunderstone (n.) A thunderbolt, -- formerly believed to be a stone..

Shackle :: Shackle (n.) A link or loop, as in a chain, fitted with a movable bolt, so that the parts can be separated, or the loop removed; a clevis..

Bulti :: Bulti (n.) Same as Bolty.

Bolt :: Bolt (v. t.) To shoot; to discharge or drive forth.

Bolt :: Bolt (n.) A sliding catch, or fastening, as for a door or gate; the portion of a lock which is shot or withdrawn by the action of the key..

Bolty :: Bolty (n.) An edible fish of the Nile (genus Chromis).

Kingbolt :: Kingbolt (n.) A vertical iron bolt, by which the forward axle and wheels of a vehicle or the trucks of a railroad car are connected with the other parts..

Matrass :: Matrass (n.) A round-bottomed glass flask having a long neck; a bolthead.

Fastening :: Fastening (n.) Anything that binds and makes fast, as a lock, catch, bolt, bar, buckle, etc..

Dread-bolted :: Dread-bolted (a.) Armed with dreaded bolts.

Channel :: Channel (n.) Flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase the spread of the shrouds and carry them clear of the bulwarks..

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