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Ringbolt :: Ringbolt (n.) An eyebolt having a ring through the eye.

Thunderbolt :: Thunderbolt (n.) A shaft of lightning; a brilliant stream of electricity passing from one part of the heavens to another, or from the clouds to the earth..

Slot :: Slot (n.) A bolt or bar for fastening a door.

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

Wrain-bolt :: Wrain-bolt (n.) Same as Wringbolt.

Copper-fastened :: Copper-fastened (a.) Fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, etc.; as, a copper-fastened ship..

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

Drawbore :: Drawbore (n.) A hole bored through a tenon nearer to the shoulder than the holes through the cheeks are to the edge or abutment against which the shoulder is to rest, so that a pin or bolt, when driven into it, will draw these parts together..

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..

Gripe :: Gripe (n.) An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted; also, broad bands passed around a boat to secure it at the davits and prevent swinging..

Boltsprit :: Boltsprit (n.) See Bowsprit.

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.

Birdbolt :: Birdbolt (n.) Anything which smites without penetrating.

Talon :: Talon (n.) The shoulder of the bolt of a lock on which the key acts to shoot the bolt.

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.

Bolting :: Bolting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bol.

Bolting :: Bolting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bol.

String :: String (n.) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it..

Unbarricade :: Unbarricade (v. t.) To unbolt; to unbar; to open.

Setbolt :: Setbolt (n.) An iron pin, or bolt, for fitting planks closely together..

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