[f. ADDER + BOLT the arrow of a cross-bow; from the shape of its body.] A dragon-fly.
1483. Caxton, Gold. Leg., 57/2. The eygth our lord sente to them locustes which is a maner grete flye callyd in some place an adder bolte.
1664. Power, Exp. Philos., I. 6. In the sloe-black eye of the Dragon-fly or Adderbolt.
1703. Petiver, in Phil. Trans., XXIII. 1414. Here is figur’d a very uncommon Libella or Adderbolt.
