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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.
a.
Armed with dreaded bolts.
n.
A hollow internally threaded screw-cutting tool, made in one piece or composed of several parts, for forming screw threads on bolts, etc.; one of the separate parts which make up such a tool.
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.
v. t.
To fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as a door, a timber, fetters; to shackle; to restrain.
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.
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To lock with two bolts; to fasten with double security.
n.
A bolt for driving out other bolts.
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One who sifts or bolts.
a.
Fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, etc.; as, a copper-fastened ship.
n.
One who bolts; esp.: (a) A horse which starts suddenly aside. (b) A man who breaks away from his party.
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A kind of shot formerly used at sea for tearing sails and rigging. It consisted of bolts, nails, and other pieces of iron fastened together or inclosed in a canister.
n.
A drift; a tool for setting bolts home.
n.
See Bowsprit.
v. t.
An instrument, often a simple bar or lever with jaws or an angular orifice either at the end or between the ends, for exerting a twisting strain, as in turning bolts, nuts, screw taps, etc.; a screw key. Many wrenches have adjustable jaws for grasping nuts, etc., of different sizes.
n.
A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth.
v. t.
To move suddenly from its place or position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate; as, to start a bone; the storm started the bolts in the vessel.
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