A large roll of fabric or similar material, as a bolt of cloth.
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 sudden spring or start; a sudden leap aside.
Suddenly; straight; unbendingly.
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 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 sort of plaster or ointment.
An instruction.
Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a cartridge.
A load or burden; cargo.
A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
The amount of money levied for a service.
The scope of someone's responsibility.
A forceful forward movement.
An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
An official description (by the police or a court) of a crime that somebody may be guilty of.
A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
An electric charge.
An image displayed on an escutcheon.
Cannabis.
An accusation by a person or organization.
A measured amount of explosive.
An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
To cause to take on an electric charge.
To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.
To assign (a debit) to an account.
To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose with water, a chemical reactor with raw materials.
To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
To attack by moving forward quickly in a group.
To call to account; to challenge.
To impute or ascribe.
To replenish energy to (a battery, or a device containing a battery) by use of an electrical device plugged into a power outlet.
To commit a charging foul.
To add to or represent on.
To take a few steps down the pitch towards the bowler as they deliver the ball, either to disrupt the length of the delivery, or to get into a better position to hit the ball.
To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog)
To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
To ornament with or cause to bear.
To assume as a bearing.
To replenish energy.
To assign a duty or responsibility to.
To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.