bolt

bolt is a 4-letter English word with 41 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, adverb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or that which resembles an arrow; a dart. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 41 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or that which resembles an arrow; a dart.
2. noun. Lightning; a thunderbolt.
3. noun. A strong pin, of iron or other material, used to fasten or hold something in place, often having a head at one end and screw thread cut upon the other end.
4. noun. A sliding catch, or fastening, as for a door or gate; the portion of a lock which is shot or withdrawn by the action of the key.
5. noun. An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
6. noun. A compact package or roll of cloth, as of canvas or silk, often containing about forty yards.
7. noun. A bundle, as of oziers.
8. transitive verb. To shoot; to discharge or drive forth.
9. transitive verb. To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
10. transitive verb. To swallow without chewing; as, to bolt food.
11. transitive verb. 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.
12. transitive verb. To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge, as conies, rabbits, etc.
13. transitive verb. To fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as a door, a timber, fetters; to shackle; to restrain.
14. intransitive verb. 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.
15. intransitive verb. To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
16. intransitive verb. To spring suddenly aside, or out of the regular path; as, the horse bolted.
17. intransitive verb. To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or a caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.
18. adverb. In the manner of a bolt; suddenly; straight; unbendingly.
19. intransitive verb. A sudden spring or start; a sudden spring aside; as, the horse made a bolt.
20. intransitive verb. A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
21. intransitive verb. A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.
22. transitive verb. 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.
23. transitive verb. To separate, as if by sifting or bolting; -- with out.
24. transitive verb. To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
25. noun. A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.
26. noun. a sudden abandonment (as from a political party)
27. noun. the act of moving with great haste

    "he made a dash for the door"

    Synonyms: dash

28. noun. a screw that screws into a nut to form a fastener
29. noun. the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key

    Synonyms: deadbolt

30. noun. a sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech
31. noun. a roll of cloth or wallpaper of a definite length
32. noun. a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder

    Synonyms: thunderbolt

33. verb. make or roll into bolts

    "bolt fabric"

34. verb. eat hastily without proper chewing

    "Don't bolt your food!"

    Synonyms: gobble

35. verb. swallow hastily
36. verb. secure or lock with a bolt

    "bolt the door"

37. verb. move or jump suddenly

    "She bolted from her seat"

38. verb. leave suddenly and as if in a hurry

    "The listeners bolted when he discussed his strange ideas"

    "When she started to tell silly stories, I ran out"

39. verb. run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along

    "The thief made off with our silver"

    "the accountant absconded with the cash from the safe"

    Synonyms: abscond, absquatulate, decamp

40. adverb. in a rigid manner

    "the body was rigidly erect"

    "he sat bolt upright"

    Synonyms: rigidly, stiffly

41. adverb. directly

    "he ran bang into the pole"

    "ran slap into her"

    Synonyms: bang, slap, slapdash, smack

Synonyms

dash, deadbolt, thunderbolt, gobble, abscond, absquatulate, decamp, rigidly, stiffly, bang, slap, slapdash, smack

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in bolt:

blot

Common word forms

bolts, bolted, bolter, bolting, boltless

Words from these letters

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