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Bolted

Bolt \Bolt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bolted; p. pr. & vb. n. Bolting.]

  1. To shoot; to discharge or drive forth.

  2. To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.

    I hate when Vice can bolt her arguments.
    --Milton.

  3. To swallow without chewing; as, to bolt food; often used with down.

  4. (U. S. Politics) 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. (Sporting) To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge, as conies, rabbits, etc.

  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.

Wiktionary
bolted

vb. (en-past of: bolt)

WordNet
bolted

adj. firmly fastened or secured against opening; "windows and doors were all fast"; "a locked closet"; "left the house properly secured" [syn: barred, fast, latched, locked, secured]

Usage examples of "bolted".

On it, bolted into place, was a combination lock panel, with three different rows of spin dials that could be set to different combinations.

He had that made to order somewhere, and brought it in, and bolted it to the door.

Now there were either seats slung from above, in which one felt much like a bag of sugar, or chairs bolted to a base plate on springs: in both these cases the weight was quickly indicated by a pointer which swung round a gigantic clock face.

Raeve cast one look back at them all, shook his head, and as the tattered intruders advanced, suddenly ducked and bolted through them, making for the door.

Abandoning defensive actions, they bolted up the steps until reaching an ornate stained-glass doorway.

Daffer lowered himself to the floor and, padding barefoot across the floor, closed and bolted the door.

The low words seemed to hiss through the gray of the early morning, and Anna bolted upright in the narrow and lumpy pallet bed, not that she had slept that well, with nightmares of various shadowy figures chasing her through improbable settings, none of which she could remember clearly.

Forse flared into a pillar of fire, the tall man bolted out the door he had blocked.

The overcaptain bolted upright at the table, his blade clearing the sheath, his face twisted in anger.

Maybe she was paranoid, but there were two small holes in the wood on the outside, and a thin slit between them, just enough that something slender could open the bolted door from outside silently.

He bolted the door shut as quiet as he could and crawled into the blankets laid out on his pallet by the stove.

He had, however, bolted the stable door, and by the time they had forced it open there was no sign of him.

It was a most fortunate move, for next second the dignified crowd of Kukuanas uttered a simultaneous yell of horror, and bolted back some yards.

On hearing this suggestion Scragga uttered a sort of howl, and bolted into the hut.

They were all nervous about my arrival, although I found subsequently that they had bolted the front door.