bolts

Meaning of bolts

verb, 3rd person present
  1. (of a horse or other animal) run away suddenly, typically from fear.
    the horses shied and bolted
  2. eat (food) quickly.
    there's no need to bolt your food

Middle English: from bolt1, expressing the sense ‘fly like an arrow’.

plural noun
  1. a roll of fabric, originally as a measure.
    the room was stacked with bolts of cloth
  2. 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:

gobble

Meaning swallow (drink or food) quickly or in large mouthfuls, often audibly:

gulp

Meaning devour (food) greedily:

wolf

Meaning eat or drink (something) greedily:

guzzle

Meaning eat (food or prey) hungrily or quickly:

devour

Meaning eat up (food) quickly:

demolish

Meaning knock or bring to the ground:

down

Meaning kill (someone) unlawfully and with premeditation:

murder

Meaning move or cause to move from one place to another, especially over a small distance:

shift

Meaning swallow (food) hastily or greedily:

gollop

Meaning eat a large amount of (food) greedily:

gorb

Meaning breathe in (air, gas, smoke, etc.):

inhale

Meaning swallow (something) greedily:

ingurgitate

Meaning a cylinder formed by winding flexible material round a tube or by turning it over and over on itself without folding:

roll

Meaning a cylinder on which film, wire, thread, or other flexible materials can be wound:

reel

Meaning a cylindrical device on which film, magnetic tape, thread, or other flexible materials can be wound; a reel:

spool

Meaning a collection of things or quantity of material tied or wrapped up together:

bundle

Meaning a large wrapped or bound bundle of paper, hay, or cotton:

bale

Meaning an object or collection of objects wrapped in paper in order to be carried or sent by post:

parcel

Meaning a paper or cardboard container, typically one in which goods are sold:

packet

Meaning the amount or number of a material or abstract thing not usually estimated by spatial measurement:

quantity

Meaning a quantity of something, especially the total of a thing or things in number, size, value, or extent:

amount

Anagrams of bolts

blots

Words that rhyme with bolts

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