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  • 101bolt — Synonyms and related words: AWOL, French leave, Irish confetti, Jupiter Fulgur, Thor, abscond, absence without leave, absquatulate, absquatulation, apostacize, apostasy, apostatize, arrow, arrowhead, articulate, assort, attach, backsliding, bale …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 102bolt action — noun Etymology: bolt (I) : a rifle action in which the breechblock takes the form of a manually operated sliding rod * * * bolt action, an action on the breech of a gun that consists of a manually operated sliding bolt with a projecting handle.… …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 103bolt-action — /bohlt ak sheuhn/, adj. (of a rifle) equipped with a manually operated sliding bolt. [1870 75] * * * ˈbolt action 7 [bolt action] adjective (of a gun) having a back part that is opened by turning a ↑bolt and sliding it back …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 104Bolt (1994 film) — Infobox Film name = Bolt caption = director = Henri Colline producer = writer = Henri Colline (screenplay) Rod Hewitt, Fabienne Rigaud (story) starring = Richard Grieco Michael Ironside Sean Young music = Chris Squire cinematography = Gerald B.… …

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  • 105Bolt Upright — Infobox musical artist Name = Bolt Upright Img capt = Img size = Landscape = Background = group or band Origin = Hollywood, CA Genre = Alternative metal, Rapcore Years active = Label = Sony 550 Music Associated acts = URL = Current members =… …

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  • 106Bolt, Beranek and Newman — Pour les articles homonymes, voir BBN. Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN) est une société américaine créée en 1948 par deux professeurs du Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) : Richard Bolt et Leo Beranek et d un ancien étudiant de… …

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  • 107Bolt — A short heavy arrow fired from a *crossbow, from which we have the phrases he has shot his bolt and a bolt from the blue . The bolt was also known as a * quarrel . Cf. Bolted arrow …

    Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases

  • 108bolt — Used for listed equity securities. block trading ( block trade) version of COLT. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary * * * bolt bolt [bəʊlt ǁ boʊlt] noun [countable] MANUFACTURING a large roll containing many metres of cloth * * * bolt UK US /bəʊlt/… …

    Financial and business terms

  • 109bolt —    A high tensile steel bolt used as an anchor; either a conical bolt screwed into a metal holder in a hole drilled in rock, causing expansion for grip, or a bolt with partially filed thread hammered into a slightly smaller hole [25] …

    Lexicon of Cave and Karst Terminology

  • 110bolt — [OE] In Old English, a bolt was an arrow, particularly of the short stout variety used in crossbows (hence the phrase shoot one’s bolt). The more familiar modern sense ‘fastening pin’ developed in the 13th century. The verbal sense ‘make a quick… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins