What is "unbolt"

Usage examples of "unbolt".

He unbolted and unlocked the door, examined the chain, put it up, and opened cautiously without showing himself.

Richard Tsao unbolted the steel door and stood aside to allow the two officers to stumble out into the sunshine.

A few weeks ago, Hertz and other rental companies began unbolting the logos from their cars because so many customers had been attacked by smash-and-grab robbers.

This accomplished, he swung the circular cover back on the stove, unbolted and opened his door, and stood in the doorway a moment assessing the day.

Jak and two of the Crossroads dwellers had already changed the tires that the albino teen had shot out, unbolting the wheels from behind the alloy wheel guards and replacing the exploded rubber with worn but still serviceable tires plundered from wags around the ville.

Loring spent a moment unbolting the cutter bar, folding the creel and raising it and the bar to the traveling position.

Escorted by the social worker, the district nurse, the home help, the abrasive yet not ungentle niece, Letty is escorted down the unswept, grass-grown basement stairs into her own scarcely used front door that someone with a key has remembered to unbolt from inside for her return.

While Indian meal, even when prepared with the husk, is one of the most wholesome and nutritious forms of food, as has been already shown by the health and rapid increase of the Southern population, and especially of the negros, previous to the present war, and by the strength, endurance and activity of the Confederate soldiers, who were throughout the war confined to a great extent to unbolted corn- meal.

They moved through the downstairs, raising windows, unbolting the inward-facing latches on the shutters, letting in the gray storm light and the fresh rain-scented air.

I had only, after just faltering at the first chill gloom of its disuse, to pass across it and unbolt as quietly as I could one of the shutters.

Muhammad Sanusi climbed into his desert vehicle and took his place in the gunner's seat in the back-but then he unbolted the big twenty-three-millimeter machine gun from its pedestal and threw it to the ground.

Francis, sheepfaced and sullen, unbolted the hatch, they’d all been frostnipped: a heel, some fingers.

A TV monitor broods over the heavy door, and I have to feed a plastic card into the lock and punch in a personal number before the door unbolts itself letting me into an airlock and a second door before I get into the animal house proper.

Yet on the third night she actually unbolts it herself and leaving it unbolted puts out her light and goes to bed.

Imagine then that the old bolt is unscrewed, rubbed with emery paper, bathed in paraffin, polished with fine sand, generously oiled, and reset by a skilled workman with such nicety that it bolts and unbolts with the pressure of a finger—with the pressure of a feather—almost so that you could blow it open or shut.