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BOLTS

5 letters

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Classic 2 pts
Big 2 pts
Super Big 2 pts

BOLTS is a valid 5-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 2 in Classic, 2 in Big, and 2 in Super Big Boggle.

BOLTS root BOLT-s

Word family

BOLT 1 BOLTING-ing 5 BOLTED-ed 3

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BOLTINGS 11
noun
  1. 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.
  2. A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism.
  3. 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.
  4. A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a cartridge in a firearm.
  5. An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
  6. A stalk or scape (of garlic, onion, etc).
  7. A large roll of fabric or similar material, as a bolt of cloth.
  8. The standard linear measurement of canvas for use at sea: 39 yards.
  9. 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.
  10. A lightning spark, i.e., a lightning bolt. (See thunderbolt.)
    • He had seen lightning bolts yesterday night.
  11. A sudden event, action or emotion.
    • The problem's solution struck him like a bolt from the blue.
  12. A sudden spring or start; a sudden leap aside.
    • The horse made a bolt.
  13. A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
  14. USA refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.
  15. A burst of speed or efficiency.
  16. A sieve, especially a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.
verb
  1. transitiveTo connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.
    • Bolt the vice to the bench.
  2. figurativelytransitiveTo affix in a crude or unnatural manner.
  3. transitiveTo secure a door by locking or barring it.
    • Bolt the door.
  4. intransitiveTo flee, to depart, to accelerate away suddenly.
    • Seeing the snake, the horse bolted.
    • The actor forgot his line and bolted from the stage.
  5. intransitiveTo escape.
  6. transitiveTo cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted).
    • to bolt a rabbit
  7. To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
  8. intransitiveTo produce flower stalks and flowers or seeds quickly or prematurely; to form a bolt (stalk or scape); to go to seed.
    • Lettuce and spinach will bolt as the weather warms up.
  9. transitiveTo swallow food without chewing it.
  10. transitiveTo drink one's drink very quickly; to down a drink.
    • Come on, everyone, bolt your drinks; I want to go to the next pub!
  11. USTo refuse to support a nomination made by a party or caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.
  12. To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
  13. To sift, especially through a cloth.
  14. To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour.
    • Graham flour is unbolted flour; in contrast, some other flours have been bolted.
  15. To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
  16. To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
adverb
  1. Suddenly; straight; unbendingly.
    • The soldiers stood bolt upright for inspection.