bolts
Meaning of bolts
verb, 3rd person present
- (of a horse or other animal) run away suddenly, typically from fear.
the horses shied and bolted
- eat (food) quickly.
there's no need to bolt your food
Middle English: from bolt1, expressing the sense ‘fly like an arrow’.
plural noun- a roll of fabric, originally as a measure.
the room was stacked with bolts of cloth
- a folded edge of a piece of paper that is trimmed off to allow it to be opened, as on a section of a book.
Middle English: transferred use of bolt1.
verb, 3rd person present
pass (flour, powder, or other material) through a sieve.
Middle English: from Old French bulter, of unknown ultimate origin. The change in the first syllable was due to association with bolt1.
Information about bolts
- The singular form of bolts is: bolt.
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Hyphenation of bolts
bolts
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- bolts is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
bolts synonyms
Meaning eat (something) hurriedly and noisily:
Meaning swallow (drink or food) quickly or in large mouthfuls, often audibly:
Meaning devour (food) greedily:
Meaning eat or drink (something) greedily:
Meaning eat (food or prey) hungrily or quickly:
Meaning eat up (food) quickly:
Meaning knock or bring to the ground:
Meaning kill (someone) unlawfully and with premeditation:
Meaning move or cause to move from one place to another, especially over a small distance:
Meaning swallow (food) hastily or greedily:
Meaning eat a large amount of (food) greedily:
Meaning breathe in (air, gas, smoke, etc.):
Meaning swallow (something) greedily:
Meaning a cylinder formed by winding flexible material round a tube or by turning it over and over on itself without folding:
Meaning a cylinder on which film, wire, thread, or other flexible materials can be wound:
Meaning a cylindrical device on which film, magnetic tape, thread, or other flexible materials can be wound; a reel:
Meaning a collection of things or quantity of material tied or wrapped up together:
Meaning a large wrapped or bound bundle of paper, hay, or cotton:
Meaning an object or collection of objects wrapped in paper in order to be carried or sent by post:
Meaning a paper or cardboard container, typically one in which goods are sold:
Meaning the amount or number of a material or abstract thing not usually estimated by spatial measurement:
Meaning a quantity of something, especially the total of a thing or things in number, size, value, or extent:
Anagrams of bolts
Words that rhyme with bolts
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