0 present 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.
The bolting faction would then either fuse with the opposition or field its own independent ticket.
The authors elaborate a compelling case for theorising gender and age relations, rather than, as at present, ' bolting on ' age to feminist discourse or gender to social gerontology.
In 1983 and 1984, consultants recommended the renewal of the roofs and the bolting of the concrete panels.
We often talk—it has been mentioned in the debate today—about the need to integrate environmental considerations in policy making to avoid bolting on policies.
If such a court is set up, it will be rather like bolting the stable door after the animal has escaped.
This is an example of bolting the door after the horse has gone, because laundry prices went up a month ago.
We have spent £500 in the last seven years on bolting, and in trying to keep the property in repair.
A lot of process plant has a life of 10 years at least, and inevitably there will be a certain amount of bolting on.
