Definitions
1.verbTo connect or assemble pieces using a bolt."Bolt the vice to the bench."
2.verbTo secure a door by locking or barring it."Bolt the door."
3.verbTo flee, to depart, to accelerate suddenly."Seeing the snake, the horse bolted."
4.verbTo cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted)."to bolt a rabbit"
5.verbTo strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
6.verbTo escape.
7.verbOf a plant, to grow quickly; to go to seed."Lettuce and spinach will bolt as the weather warms up."
8.verbTo swallow food without chewing it.
9.verbTo drink one's drink very quickly; to down a drink."Come on, everyone, bolt your drinks; I want to go to the next pub!"
10.verbTo refuse to support a nomination made by a party or caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.
11.verbTo utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
12.verbTo sift, especially through a cloth.
13.verbTo sift the bran and germ from wheat flour."Graham flour is unbolted flour."
14.verbTo separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
15.verbTo discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.