1. bolt

verb. ['ˈboʊlt'] secure or lock with a bolt.

Rhymes with Bolt

• revolt
• picoult
• stolte
• stolt
• stoldt
• schmoldt
• woldt
• volt
• solt
• rolt
• nolte
• nolt
• molt
• jolt
• holte
• holt
• hohlt
• colt
• boldt
• oldt

How do you pronounce bolt?

Pronounce bolt as boʊlt.

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Sentences with bolt

1. Noun, singular or mass
Tighten the bolt just enough to hold it in place.

2. Verb, base form
Put a new one in, hook up the hoses and bolt it in with the wrench.

Quotes about bolt

1. Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
- Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

2. A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
- John Ciardi

3. I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door."( A Boy in France : Saturday Evening Post CCXVII, March 31, 1945)
- J.D. Salinger

2. bolt

verb. ['ˈboʊlt'] move or jump suddenly.

3. bolt

noun. ['ˈboʊlt'] a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder.

4. bolt

verb. ['ˈboʊlt'] swallow hastily.

5. bolt

adverb. ['ˈboʊlt'] in a rigid manner.

6. bolt

noun. ['ˈboʊlt'] the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key.

7. bolt

noun. ['ˈboʊlt'] a sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech.

8. bolt

noun. ['ˈboʊlt'] the act of moving with great haste.

9. bolt

adverb. ['ˈboʊlt'] directly.

10. bolt

verb. ['ˈboʊlt'] eat hastily without proper chewing.