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Bolt

A bar made of wood or metal that slides into a socket and is used to fasten doors and gates.
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Boot

A boot, plural boots, is a type of specific footwear. Most boots mainly cover the foot and the ankle, while some also cover some part of the lower calf.
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Bolt

A metal bar or rod in the mechanism of a lock that is thrown or withdrawn by turning the key.
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Boot

A sturdy item of footwear covering the foot and ankle, and sometimes also the lower leg
A pair of walking boots
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Bolt

A fastener consisting of a threaded pin or rod with a head at one end, designed to be inserted through holes in assembled parts and secured by a mated nut that is tightened by applying torque.
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Boot

A hard kick
He got a boot in the stomach
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Bolt

A sliding metal bar that positions the cartridge in breechloading rifles, closes the breech, and ejects the spent cartridge.
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Boot

An enclosed space at the back of a car for carrying luggage or other goods.
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Bolt

A similar device in any breech mechanism.
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Boot

The process of starting a computer and putting it into a state of readiness for operation
A boot disk
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Bolt

A short, heavy arrow with a thick head, used especially with a crossbow.
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Boot

As well; in addition
He is a likeable guy, and funny to boot
Images that are precise, revealing, and often beautiful to boot
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Bolt

A flash of lightning; a thunderbolt.
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Boot

Kick (something) hard in a specified direction
He ended up booting the ball into the stand
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Bolt

A sudden or unexpected event
The announcement was a veritable bolt.
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Boot

Start (a computer) and put it into a state of readiness for operation
The menu will be ready as soon as you boot up your computer
The system won't boot from the original drive
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Bolt

A sudden movement toward or away.
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Boot

Place a wheel clamp on (an illegally parked car)
Once a car is booted, the owner must pay all fines plus a fee to have the boot removed
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Bolt

A large roll of cloth of a definite length, especially as it comes from the loom.
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Boot

A durable covering for the foot and part or much of the leg, usually made of leather, fabric, plastic, or rubber.
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Bolt

To secure or lock with or as if with a bolt.
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Boot

A protective covering, especially a sheath to enclose the base of a floor-mounted gear shift lever in a car or truck.
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Bolt

To arrange or roll (lengths of cloth, for example) on or in a bolt.
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Boot

Chiefly British An automobile trunk.
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Bolt

To eat (food) hurriedly and with little chewing; gulp.
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Boot

A kick.
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Bolt

To desert or withdraw support from (a political party).
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Boot

(Slang) An unceremonious dismissal, as from a job. Used with the.
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Bolt

To utter impulsively; blurt.
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Boot

(Slang) A swift, pleasurable feeling; a thrill.
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Bolt

(Archaic) To shoot or discharge (a missile, such as an arrow).
Oct 05, 2022

Boot

A Denver boot.
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Bolt

To move or spring suddenly.
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Boot

A marine or navy recruit in basic training.
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Bolt

To start suddenly and run away
The horse bolted at the sound of the shot. The frightened child bolted from the room.
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Boot

(Computers) The process of starting or restarting a computer.
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Bolt

To break away from an affiliation, as from a political party.
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Boot

Boots An instrument of torture, used to crush the foot and leg.
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Bolt

(Botany) To flower or produce seeds prematurely or develop a flowering stem from a rosette.
Oct 05, 2022

Boot

Chiefly Southern & Midland US See lagniappe.
Oct 05, 2022

Bolt

To pass (flour, for example) through a sieve.
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Boot

(Archaic) Advantage; avail.
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Bolt

A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a cylindrical body that is threaded, with a larger head on one end. It can be inserted into an unthreaded hole up to the head, with a nut then threaded on the other end; a heavy machine screw.
Oct 05, 2022

Boot

To put boots on.
Oct 05, 2022

Bolt

A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism.
Oct 05, 2022

Boot

To kick
Booted the ball into the goal.
Oct 05, 2022

Bolt

A bar of wood or metal dropped in horizontal hooks on a door and adjoining wall or between the two sides of a double door, to prevent the door(s) from being forced open.
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Boot

(Slang) To discharge unceremoniously.
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Bolt

A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a cartridge in a firearm.
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Boot

(Computers) To start (a computer) by loading an operating system from a disk.
Oct 05, 2022

Bolt

A small personal-armour-piercing missile for short-range use, or (in common usage though deprecated by experts) a short arrow, intended to be shot from a crossbow or a catapult.
Oct 05, 2022

Boot

To disable (a vehicle) by attaching a Denver boot.
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Bolt

A lightning spark, i.e., a lightning bolt.
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Boot

(Baseball) To misplay (a ground ball).
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Bolt

A sudden event, action or emotion.
The problem's solution struck him like a bolt from the blue.
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Boot

To be of help or advantage; avail.
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Bolt

A large roll of fabric or similar material, as a bolt of cloth.
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Boot

A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.
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Bolt

(nautical) The standard linear measurement of canvas for use at sea: 39 yards.
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Boot

(sports) A kind of sports shoe worn by players of certain games such as cricket and football.
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Bolt

A sudden spring or start; a sudden leap aside.
The horse made a bolt.
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Boot

A blow with the foot; a kick.
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Bolt

A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
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Boot

(construction) A flexible cover of rubber or plastic, which may be preformed to a particular shape and used to protect a shaft, lever, switch, or opening from dust, dirt, moisture, etc.
Oct 05, 2022

Bolt

A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.
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Boot

(usually preceded by definite article) A torture device used on the feet or legs, such as a Spanish boot.
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Bolt

An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
Oct 05, 2022

Boot

(US) A parking enforcement device used to immobilize a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a wheel clamp.
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Bolt

A burst of speed or efficiency.
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Boot

(aviation) A rubber bladder on the leading edge of an aircraft’s wing, which is inflated periodically to remove ice buildup; a deicing boot.
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Bolt

A stalk or scape (of garlic, onion, etc).
Oct 05, 2022

Boot

(obsolete) A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach.
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Bolt

A sieve, especially a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.
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Boot

(archaic) A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.
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Bolt

To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.
Bolt the vice to the bench.
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Boot

A recently arrived recruit; a rookie.
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Bolt

To secure a door by locking or barring it.
Bolt the door.
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Boot

The luggage storage compartment of a sedan or saloon car.
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Bolt

(intransitive) To flee, to depart, to accelerate suddenly.
Seeing the snake, the horse bolted.
The actor forgot his line and bolted from the stage.
Oct 05, 2022

Boot

The act or process of removing or firing someone (dismissing them from a job or other post).
He was useless so he got the boot.
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Bolt

(transitive) To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted).
To bolt a rabbit
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Boot

An unattractive person, ugly woman.
Old boot
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Bolt

To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
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Boot

A black person.
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Bolt

(intransitive) To escape.
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Boot

(firearms) A hard plastic case for a long firearm, typically moulded to the shape of the gun and intended for use in a vehicle.
Oct 05, 2022

Bolt

To produce flower stalks and flowers or seeds quickly or prematurely; to form a bolt (stalk or scape); to go to seed.
Lettuce and spinach will bolt as the weather warms up.
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Boot

(baseball) A bobbled ball.
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Bolt

To swallow food without chewing it.
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Boot

(botany) The inflated flag leaf sheath of a wheat plant.
Oct 05, 2022

Bolt

To drink one's drink very quickly; to down a drink.
Come on, everyone, bolt your drinks; I want to go to the next pub!
Oct 05, 2022

Boot

(slang) A linear amplifier used with CB radio.
Oct 05, 2022

Bolt

To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.
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Boot

A tyre.
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Bolt

To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
Oct 05, 2022

Boot

(US) A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
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Bolt

To sift, especially through a cloth.
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Boot

Remedy, amends.
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Bolt

To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour.
Graham flour is unbolted flour; in contrast, some other flours have been bolted.
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Boot

(uncountable) Profit, plunder.
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Bolt

To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
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Boot

That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged; compensation; recompense.
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Bolt

(legal) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
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Boot

(obsolete) Profit; gain; advantage; use.
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Bolt

Suddenly; straight; unbendingly.
The soldiers stood bolt upright for inspection.
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Boot

(obsolete) Repair work; the act of fixing structures or buildings.
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Bolt

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.
Look that the crossbowmen lack not bolts.
A fool's bolt is soon shot.
Oct 05, 2022

Boot

(obsolete) A medicinal cure or remedy.
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Bolt

Lightning; a thunderbolt.
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Boot

(computing) The act or process of bootstrapping; the starting or re-starting of a computing device.
It took three boots, but I finally got the application installed.
Oct 05, 2022

Bolt

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.
Oct 05, 2022

Boot

(informal) A bootleg recording.
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Bolt

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.
Oct 05, 2022

Boot

To kick.
I booted the ball toward my teammate.
Oct 05, 2022

Bolt

An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
Away with him to prison!lay bolts enough upon him.
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Boot

To put boots on, especially for riding.
Oct 05, 2022

Bolt

A compact package or roll of cloth, as of canvas or silk, often containing about forty yards.
Oct 05, 2022

Boot

To step on the accelerator of a vehicle for faster acceleration than usual or to drive faster than usual.
The storm is coming fast! Boot it!
We had to boot it all the way there to get to our flight on time.
Oct 05, 2022

Bolt

A bundle, as of oziers.
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Boot

To apply corporal punishment (compare slippering).
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Bolt

A sudden spring or start; a sudden spring aside; as, the horse made a bolt.
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Boot

(informal) To eject; kick out.
We need to boot those troublemakers as soon as possible.
The senator was booted from the committee for unethical behavior.
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Bolt

A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
This gentleman was so hopelessly involved that he contemplated a bolt to America - or anywhere.
Oct 05, 2022

Boot

(often with up) To start or restart a computer or other electronic system; to bootstrap.
Boot up the system before 8 a.m. on weekdays.
Oct 05, 2022

Bolt

A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.
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Boot

To disconnect forcibly; to eject from an online service, conversation, etc.
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Bolt

A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.
Oct 05, 2022

Boot

(slang) To vomit.
Sorry, I didn’t mean to boot all over your couch.
Oct 05, 2022

Bolt

To shoot; to discharge or drive forth.
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Boot

To shoot, to kill by gunfire.
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Bolt

To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
I hate when Vice can bolt her arguments.
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Boot

To avail, benefit, profit.
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Bolt

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

To benefit, to enrich; to give in addition.
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Bolt

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.
Oct 05, 2022

Boot

(computing) To bootstrap; to start a system, e.g. a computer, by invoking its boot process or bootstrap.
When arriving at the office, the first thing I do is boot my machine.
Oct 05, 2022

Bolt

To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge, as conies, rabbits, etc.
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Boot

Remedy; relief; amends; reparation; hence, one who brings relief.
He gaf the sike man his boote.
Thou art boot for many a bruiseAnd healest many a wound.
Next her Son, our soul's best boot.
Oct 05, 2022

Bolt

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.
Which shackles accidents and bolts up change.
Oct 05, 2022

Boot

That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged.
I'll give you boot, I'll give you three for one.
Oct 05, 2022

Bolt

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.
This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt, . . . And oft out of a bush doth bolt.
Oct 05, 2022

Boot

Profit; gain; advantage; use.
Then talk no more of flight, it is no boot.
Helen, to change, would give an eye to boot.
A man's heaviness is refreshed long before he comes to drunkenness, for when he arrives thither he hath but changed his heaviness, and taken a crime to boot.
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Bolt

To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
His cloudless thunder bolted on their heads.
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Boot

A covering for the foot and lower part of the leg, ordinarily made of leather.
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Bolt

To spring suddenly aside, or out of the regular path; as, the horse bolted.
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Boot

An instrument of torture for the leg, formerly used to extort confessions, particularly in Scotland.
So he was put to the torture, which in Scotland they call the boots; for they put a pair of iron boots close on the leg, and drive wedges between them and the leg.
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Bolt

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.
Oct 05, 2022

Boot

A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach.
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Bolt

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.
He now had bolted all the flour.
Ill schooled in bolted language.
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Boot

A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.
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Bolt

To separate, as if by sifting or bolting; - with out.
Time and nature will bolt out the truth of things.
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Boot

An apron or cover (of leather or rubber cloth) for the driving seat of a vehicle, to protect from rain and mud.
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Bolt

To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
This bolts the matter fairly to the bran.
The report of the committee was examined and sifted and bolted to the bran.
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Boot

The metal casing and flange fitted about a pipe where it passes through a roof.
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Bolt

In the manner of a bolt; suddenly; straight; unbendingly.
[He] came bolt up against the heavy dragoon.
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Boot

Booty; spoil.
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Bolt

A discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder
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Boot

To profit; to advantage; to avail; - generally followed by it; as, what boots it?
What booteth it to others that we wish them well, and do nothing for them?
What subduedTo change like this a mind so far imbuedWith scorn of man, it little boots to know.
What boots to us your victories?
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Bolt

A sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech
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Boot

To enrich; to benefit; to give in addition.
And I will boot thee with what gift besideThy modesty can beg.
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Bolt

The part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key
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Boot

To put boots on, esp. for riding.
Coated and booted for it.
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Bolt

The act of moving with great haste;
He made a dash for the door
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Boot

To punish by kicking with a booted foot.
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Bolt

A roll of cloth or wallpaper of a definite length
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Boot

To boot one's self; to put on one's boots.
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Bolt

A screw that screws into a nut to form a fastener
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Boot

Footwear that covers the whole foot and lower leg
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Bolt

A sudden abandonment (as from a political party)
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Boot

British term for the luggage compartment in a car
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Bolt

Move or jump suddenly;
She bolted from her seat
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Boot

The swift release of a store of affective force;
They got a great bang out of it
What a boot!
He got a quick rush from injecting heroin
He does it for kicks
Oct 05, 2022

Bolt

Secure or lock with a bolt;
Bolt the door
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Boot

Protective casing for something that resembles a leg
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Bolt

Swallow hastily
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Boot

An instrument of torture that is used to crush the foot and leg
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Bolt

Run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along
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Boot

The act of delivering a blow with the foot;
He gave the ball a powerful kick
The team's kicking was excellent
Oct 05, 2022

Bolt

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
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Boot

Kick; give a boot to
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Bolt

Eat hastily without proper chewing;
Don't bolt your food!
Oct 05, 2022

Boot

Cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes;
Boot your computer
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Bolt

Make or roll into bolts;
Bolt fabric
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Bolt

In a rigid manner;
The body was rigidly erect
Ge sat bolt upright
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Bolt

Directly;
He ran bang into the pole
Ran slap into her
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