Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A long straight-necked glass vessel for chemical distillations. Also called
matrass and receiver.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A long, straight-necked, glass vessel for chemical distillations; -- called also a
matrass or receiver. - noun The head of a bolt.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun chemistry A
round-bottomed flask with a longneck (used especially for distillation) - noun The head of a
bolt .
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Examples
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The fabric lay as smoothly as though it were her own skin; not so much as a bolthead showed to interfere with her streamlining.
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My eye took in every trifle, every bolthead, rivet, scratch, dent, indicator, seam and panel, playing with them in my mind, making and rejecting patterns.
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If I'd a called it a bolthead it would a done just as well.
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If I'd a called it a bolthead it would a done just as well.
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If I'd a called it a bolthead it would a done just as well.
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Every prostrate Kanaka; every coil of rope; every calabash of poi; every puppy; every seam in the flooring; every bolthead; every object; however minute, showed sharp and distinct in its every outline; and the shadow of the broad mainsail lay black as a pall upon the deck, leaving Billings's white upturned face glorified and his body in a total eclipse.
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Every prostrate Kanaka; every coil of rope; every calabash of poi; every puppy; every seam in the flooring; every bolthead; every object; however minute, showed sharp and distinct in its every outline; and the shadow of the broad mainsail lay black as a pall upon the deck, leaving Billings's white upturned face glorified and his body in a total eclipse.
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Every prostrate Kanaka; every coil of rope; every calabash of poi; every puppy; every seam in the flooring; every bolthead; every object; however minute, showed sharp and distinct in its every outline; and the shadow of the broad mainsail lay black as a pall upon the deck, leaving Billings's white upturned face glorified and his body in a total eclipse.
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Let a condensed beam be sent through a large flask or bolthead containing common air.
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Receiver and condense there into a Liquor, that being rectifi'd will be of a pure golden Colour, and carry up that colour to a great height; this Spirit abounds in the Salt I told you of, part of which may easily enough be separated by the way I use in such cases, which is, to put the Liquor into a glass Egg, or bolthead with a long and narrow Neck.
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