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▪ I. bolted, boulted, ppl. a.1|ˈbəʊltɪd|
[f. bolt v.1 + -ed.]
Sifted; fig. carefully selected, choice.
c1200Ormin 992 Recles smec, & bulltedd bræd Þatt bakenn wass inn ofne. c1440Promp. Parv. 55 Bu[l]tyd, taratan-tarizatus. 1607Shakes. Cor. iii. i. 322 He..is ill-school'd In boulted Language.
▪ II. ˈbolted, ppl. a.2
[f. bolt n.1 and v.2 + -ed.]
1. Closed and fastened with a bolt; also fig.
1588T. L. To Ch. of Rome (1651) 19 Those bar'd and bolted hearts of yours. 1687H. More Death's Vis. viii. 200 Id'e Storm those Bolted Ears. 1784Cowper Task iv. 304 The bolted shutter. 1828Carlyle Misc. (1857) I. 143 That bolted towers should encircle her.
2. Formed into or like bolts.
1747T. Gibbons Elegy vi, His shafted Lightnings, and his bolted Storms. 1860T. Martin Horace 79 Bolted lightnings flash.
3. Fastened together with bolts.
1797Encycl. Brit. s.v. Ship, They..have the beams, knees, and fore-hooks bolted into them. 1832H. T. De la Beche Geol. Man. 75 Blocks..squared and bolted together in the form of piers and jetties.
4. bolted arrows: (app.) arrows with blunt heads, bird-bolts.
1864Reader 24 Dec. 792/3 Shooting, with bolted arrows, partridge or pigeon. |