To escape.
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 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 strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
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.
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.
Suddenly; straight; unbendingly.
To flee from a danger or towards help.
To carry (a football) down the field, as opposed to passing or kicking.
Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.
To print or broadcast in the media.
To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
To be a candidate in an election.
To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.
To control or manage, be in charge of.
To smuggle (illegal goods).
To go at a fast pace; to move quickly.
To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).
To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
To make run in a race.
To transit a length of a river, as in whitewater rafting.
To control or have precedence in a card game.
To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot. (Compare walk.)
To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).
To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.
To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
To cause to move quickly or lightly.
To cause to enter; to thrust.
To speedrun.
To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.
To move or spread quickly.
To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).
To make a machine operate.
To become liquid; to melt.
To make something extend in space.
Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.
To achieve or perform by running or as if by running.
To pass (without stopping), typically a stop signal, stop sign, or duty to yield the right of way.
To transport someone or something, notionally at a brisk pace.
To be presented in the media.
Of a means of transportation: to travel (a route).
To cost a large amount of money.
Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).
Of a liquid, to flow.
To compete in a race.
Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
To make run in an election.
To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
To have growth or development.
To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
To make a liquid flow; to make liquid flow from or into an object.
To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.