[f. BOLT sb.1 and v.2 + -ED.]

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  1.  Closed and fastened with a bolt; also fig.

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1588.  T. L., To Ch. of Rome (1651), 19. Those bar’d and bolted hearts of yours.

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1687.  H. More, Death’s Vis., viii. 200. Id’e Storm those Bolted Ears.

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1784.  Cowper, Task, IV. 304. The bolted shutter.

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1828.  Carlyle, Misc. (1857), I. 143. That bolted towers should encircle her.

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  2.  Formed into or like bolts.

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1747.  T. Gibbons, Elegy J. Gardiner, vi.

        From Sinai, where th’ Almighty Thunderer forms
His shafted Lightnings, and his bolted Storms.

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1860.  T. Martin, Horace, 79. Bolted lightnings flash.

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  3.  Fastened together with bolts.

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1797.  Encycl. Brit., s.v. Ship, They … have the beams, knees, and fore-hooks bolted into them.

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1832.  De la Beche, Geol. Man., 75. Blocks … squared and bolted together in the form of piers and jetties.

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  4.  Bolted arrows: (app.) arrows with blunt heads, bird-bolts.

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1864.  Reader, 24 Dec., 792/3. Shooting, with bolted arrows, partridge or pigeon.

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