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Bit :: Bit (v.) The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.

Bolt :: Bolt (v. t.) To swallow without chewing; as, to bolt food..

Bolt :: Bolt (v. i.) 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..

Mugwump :: Mugwump (n.) A bolter from the Republican party in the national election of 1884; an Independent.

Stud :: Stud (n.) A stud bolt.

Bolt :: Bolt (v. i.) To spring suddenly aside, or out of the regular path; as, the horse bolted..

Strip :: Strip (v. i.) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. See Strip, v. t., 8..

Sprigged :: Sprig (n.) A small eyebolt ragged or barbed at the point.

Middlings :: Middlings (n. pl.) A combination of the coarser parts of ground wheat the finest bran, separated from the fine flour and coarse bran in bolting; -- formerly regarded as valuable only for feed; but now, after separation of the bran, used for making the best quality of flour. Middlings contain a large proportion of gluten..

Cant :: Cant (v. t.) To cut off an angle from, as from a square piece of timber, or from the head of a bolt..

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

Fish :: Fish (v. t.) To strengthen (a beam, mast, etc.), or unite end to end (two timbers, railroad rails, etc.) by bolting a plank, timber, or plate to the beam, mast, or timbers, lengthwise on one or both sides. See Fish joint, under Fish, n..

Blood-boltered :: Blood-boltered (a.) Having the hair matted with clotted blood.

Wringbolt :: Wringbolt (n.) A bolt used by shipwrights, to bend and secure the planks against the timbers till they are fastened by bolts, spikes, or treenails; -- not to be confounded with ringbolt..

Flour :: Flour (n.) The finely ground meal of wheat, or of any other grain; especially, the finer part of meal separated by bolting; hence, the fine and soft powder of any substance; as, flour of emery; flour of mustard..

Bolt :: Bolt (v. t.) To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.

Countersink :: Countersink (v. t.) To cause to sink even with or below the surface; as, to countersink a screw or bolt into woodwork..

Bolt :: Bolt (v. i.) A sudden spring or start; a sudden spring aside; as, the horse made a bolt..

Drift :: Drift (n.) The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven..

Boltsprit :: Boltsprit (n.) See Bowsprit.

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