| 释义 |
drop-bolt
[In sense 1, f. the stem of drop v.; in sense 2, f. drop n.]
1. A bolt constructed so as to drop into a socket.
1786A. Seward Lett. I. 225, I lifted the drop-bolt.
2. The bolt of the drop on a gallows.
1890R. Kipling Phantom Rickshaw (ed. 3) 9 As a condemned criminal might speak ere the drop-bolts are drawn. |