bolt
noun
[ bəʊlt ]
• a bar that slides into a socket to fasten a door or window.
• a short, heavy arrow shot from a crossbow.
• a jagged white flash of lightning.
bolt
verb
• fasten (a door or window) with a bar that slides into a socket.
• "all the doors were locked and bolted"
Origin:
Old English, ‘arrow’, of unknown origin; related to Dutch bout and German Bolzen ‘arrow, bolt for a door’.
bolt
verb
• (of a horse or other animal) run away suddenly, typically from fear.
• "the horses shied and bolted"
• eat (food) quickly.
• "there's no need to bolt your food"
Similar:
gobble,
gulp,
wolf,
guzzle,
devour,
gorge (oneself) on,
eat greedily/hungrily,
tuck into,
put/pack away,
demolish,
polish off,
scoff (down),
down,
stuff one's face with,
pig oneself on,
murder,
shovel down,
shift,
gollop,
gorb,
scarf (down/up),
snarf (down/up),
inhale,
ingurgitate,
Origin:
Middle English: from bolt1, expressing the sense ‘fly like an arrow’.
bolt
noun
• a roll of fabric, originally as a measure.
• "the room was stacked with bolts of cloth"
• a folded edge of a piece of paper that is trimmed off to allow it to be opened, as on a section of a book.
Origin:
Middle English: transferred use of bolt1.
bolt
verb
• pass (flour, powder, or other material) through a sieve.
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French bulter, of unknown ultimate origin. The change in the first syllable was due to association with bolt1.
