BOLT

Definitions

1. 1. To shoot; to discharge or drive forth.
2. 2. To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out. I hate when Vice can bolt her arguments. Milton.
3. 3. To swallow without chewing; as, to bolt food.
4. 4. 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.
5. 5. To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge, as conies, rabbits, etc.
6. 6. To fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as a door, a timber, fetters; to shackle; to restrain. Let tenfold iron bolt my door. Langhorn. Which shackles accidents and bolts up change. Shak.