0 past simple and past participle of bolt
1 to move very fast, especially as a result of being frightened:
Don't bolt your food like that - you'll get indigestion.
When a party failed to find common ground upon which all their members could stand, these conventions often broke up as the losers bolted.
Consolation is not some separable end, something to be bolted on as a consequence of living religiously.
Children are wired for sound, but print is an optional accessory that must be painfully bolted on.
The doors too, with notable exceptions, are applied to the front of a brick hole, bolted on and sealed with mastic.
With a suitable substructure, fixings can take the form of either bolted anchor systems or grout-in anchors.
Some plants bolted without showing any signs of flowering.
Although less strong than welded joints, the bolted connections were entirely adequate for the designated loads.
In the design of the project, the mechanical oscillators were bolted to the structural members which make up the floor of room 117.
