0 past simple and past participle of bolt --
1 to move very fast, especially as a result of being frightened: --
2 to eat food very quickly: --
Don't bolt your food like that - you'll get indigestion.
The window and the door were both bolted which was the usual practice apparently to prevent burglary and 'the air was quite foul'.
However, sampling for damaging stages gives little time to make decisions and is somewhat akin to dealing with the problem of the stable door after the horse has bolted.
Column, column plate and ease detail show how elements are easily bolted together.
The vessels were equipped with a whaling cannon bolted on the foredeck and two bottlenose cannons fitted aft.
When the 2 in. tubing was bolted on the columns, a clockwise moment was produced.
The animal was swaddled in moist cheesecloth and secured to a piece of cork bolted to a rotatable stage.
The frames were constructed out of lightweight steel girders bolted together to support two vertical sheets of steel mesh.
In the design of the project, the mechanical oscillators were bolted to the structural members which make up the floor of room 117.
