beak vs bolt

beak

verb
  • Strike with the beak. 

  • To play truant. 

  • Seize with the beak. 

noun
  • Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Libythea, notable for the beak-like elongation on their heads. 

  • A schoolmaster (originally, at Eton). 

  • The human nose, especially one that is large and pointed. 

  • That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee. 

  • A rigid structure projecting from the front of a bird's face, used for pecking, grooming, foraging, carrying items, eating food, etc. 

  • A similar structure forming the jaws of an octopus, turtle, etc. 

  • A justice of the peace; a magistrate. 

  • The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve. 

  • The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal. 

  • The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera. 

  • A toe clip. 

  • A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, used as a ram to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead. 

  • cocaine. 

  • Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant. 

  • Anything projecting or ending in a point like a beak, such as a promontory of land. 

  • A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off. 

bolt

verb
  • To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt. 

  • To produce flower stalks and flowers or seeds quickly or prematurely; to form a bolt (stalk or scape); to go to seed. 

  • To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law. 

  • To escape. 

  • To sift, especially through a cloth. 

  • To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted). 

  • To flee, to depart, to accelerate suddenly. 

  • To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour. 

  • To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt. 

  • To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out. 

  • To secure a door by locking or barring it. 

  • To swallow food without chewing it. 

  • To drink one's drink very quickly; to down a drink. 

  • To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party. 

  • To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means. 

noun
  • A small personal-armour-piercing missile for short-range use, or (in common usage though deprecated by experts) a short arrow, intended to be shot from a crossbow or a catapult. 

  • The standard linear measurement of canvas for use at sea: 39 yards. 

  • A sieve, especially a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter. 

  • A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a cartridge in a firearm. 

  • A sudden flight, as to escape creditors. 

  • A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a cylindrical body that is threaded, with a larger head on one end. It can be inserted into an unthreaded hole up to the head, with a nut then threaded on the other end; a heavy machine screw. 

  • A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party. 

  • A stalk or scape (of garlic, onion, etc). 

  • A burst of speed or efficiency. 

  • A bar of wood or metal dropped in horizontal hooks on a door and adjoining wall or between the two sides of a double door, to prevent the door(s) from being forced open. 

  • A lightning spark, i.e., a lightning bolt. 

  • An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter. 

  • A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism. 

  • A sudden event, action or emotion. 

  • A large roll of fabric or similar material, as a bolt of cloth. 

  • A sudden spring or start; a sudden leap aside. 

adv
  • Suddenly; straight; unbendingly. 

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