Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Without a bolt.
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- adjective Without
bolts (mechanical fasteners).
Etymologies
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Examples
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I opened the bolt and removed it and handed the boltless rifle back to the kid.
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I opened the bolt and removed it and handed the boltless rifle back to the kid.
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Sometimes you discovered a fresh shallow grave topped with a wooden cross or a boltless rifle stuck muzzle-down into the mud with a helmet on top of it.
ONE SHOT-ONE KILL CHARLES W. SASSER CRAIG ROBERTS 1990
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_Sordavala_, for the Musical Festival, we had some curious experiences in connection with boltless doors.
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Flashed with dismay, and, boltless lightening through
Freedom, Truth and Beauty Edward Doyle
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Paper is pasted in place of missing panes; gaps in the railings are made good with split bamboo; an empty box keeps the boltless gate shut; old stains vaguely show through new whitewash on the walls.
The Fugitive Rabindranath Tagore 1901
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He it was, the Franklin's kite, led by the highest hand, that went up into the papal thundercloud hanging black over Europe; and the angry fire that broke upon it burned it not, and in roars of boltless thunder the apparition collapsed, and the sun of truth broke through the inky fragments on the nations once again.
Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country Alexander Smith 1848
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He is very recondite in his images, and you are sometimes reminded of one storming in English at a Hindoo -- it is pointless fury, boltless thunder.
Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Volume 2 George Gilfillan 1845
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He is very recondite in his images, and you are sometimes reminded of one storming in English at a Hindoo -- it is pointless fury, boltless thunder.
Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete George Gilfillan 1845
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Force to upgrade the service's C-130 transport fleet with new boltless wheels and carbon brakes.
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