Bolt

1. In the manner of a bolt; suddenly; straight; unbendingly.
2. To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
3. To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or a caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.
4. To start forth like a bolt or arrow; to spring abruptly; to come or go suddenly; to dart; as, to bolt out of the room.
5. Lightning; a thunderbolt.
6. A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
7. To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
8. A compact package or roll of cloth, as of canvas or silk, often containing about forty yards.
9. To sift or separate the coarser from the finer particles of, as bran from flour, by means of a bolter; to separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
10. A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.
11. To swallow without chewing; as, to bolt food.
12. A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or that which resembles an arrow; a dart.
13. To fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as a door, a timber, fetters; to shackle; to restrain.
14. To separate, as if by sifting or bolting; -- with out.
15. A strong pin, of iron or other material, used to fasten or hold something in place, often having a head at one end and screw thread cut upon the other end.
16. An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
17. A sudden spring or start; a sudden spring aside; as, the horse made a bolt.
18. A sliding catch, or fastening, as for a door or gate; the portion of a lock which is shot or withdrawn by the action of the key.
19. A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.
20. To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge, as conies, rabbits, etc.
21. To spring suddenly aside, or out of the regular path; as, the horse bolted.
22. A bundle, as of oziers.
23. To refuse to support, as a nomination made by a party to which one has belonged or by a caucus in which one has taken part.
24. To shoot; to discharge or drive forth.
25. To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.