Crossword-Solution: BOLT 4 letters, 284 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Bolt	n.	A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or that which resembles an arrow; a dart.
Bolt	n.	Lightning; a thunderbolt.
Bolt	n.	A strong pin, of iron or other material, used to fasten or hold something in place, often having a head at one end and screw thread cut upon the other end.
Bolt	n.	A sliding catch, or fastening, as for a door or gate; the portion of a lock which is shot or withdrawn by the action of the key.
Bolt	n.	An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
Bolt	n.	A compact package or roll of cloth, as of canvas or silk, often containing about forty yards.
Bolt	n.	A bundle, as of oziers.
Bolt	v. t.	To shoot; to discharge or drive forth.
Bolt	v. t.	To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
Bolt	v. t.	To swallow without chewing; as, to bolt food.
Bolt	v. t.	To refuse to support, as a nomination made by a party to which one has belonged or by a caucus in which one has taken part.
Bolt	v. t.	To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge, as conies, rabbits, etc.
Bolt	v. t.	To fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as a door, a timber, fetters; to shackle; to restrain.
Bolt	v. i.	To start forth like a bolt or arrow; to spring abruptly; to come or go suddenly; to dart; as, to bolt out of the room.
Bolt	v. i.	To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
Bolt	v. i.	To spring suddenly aside, or out of the regular path; as, the horse bolted.
Bolt	v. i.	To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or a caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.
Bolt	adv.	In the manner of a bolt; suddenly; straight; unbendingly.
Bolt	v. i.	A sudden spring or start; a sudden spring aside; as, the horse made a bolt.
Bolt	v. i.	A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
Bolt	v. i.	A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.
Bolt	v. t.	To sift or separate the coarser from the finer particles of, as bran from flour, by means of a bolter; to separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
Bolt	v. t.	To separate, as if by sifting or bolting; -- with out.
Bolt	v. t.	To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
Bolt	n.	A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
BOLT	anagram	BLOT

We have 284 clues for the answer “BOLT”

Clue	Answers
"A Man for All Seasons" playwright	1 answer
"Faster Than Lightning" autobiographer Usain	1 answer
2008 Travolta/Cyrus flick	1 answer
A nut needs one	1 answer
Alice-remembering Ben	1 answer
Apt name for a certain world-class runner	1 answer
Aptly named Olympic sprinter Usain ___	1 answer
Aptly named Olympics star	1 answer
Aptly named sprinter Usain	1 answer
Aptly named track star	1 answer
Arrow shot from a crossbow.	1 answer
Arrow used with a crossbow.	1 answer
Author of "A Man for All Seasons."	1 answer
Author of "Man for All Seasons."	1 answer
Secure with a sudden movement	1 answer
BREAK from control (of horse)	1 answer
Ben Lee song that hightails it?	1 answer
Ben of 1843 song.	1 answer
Bit of hardware that fits in a nut	1 answer
Clear out in a hurry	1 answer
Cloth Unit A/C	1 answer
Cloth bundle	1 answer
Cloth quantity	1 answer
Cloth roll	1 answer
Cloth unit	1 answer
Contents of a nut	1 answer
Desert one's party.	1 answer
Disney hero with a "superbark"	1 answer
Eat and run?	1 answer
Electric weather phenomenon	1 answer
Fabric measurement	1 answer
Fabric purchase	1 answer
Fabric quantity	1 answer
Fabric shop roll	1 answer
Fastest man alive	1 answer
Flee suddenly	1 answer
Get out of Dodge ... or an electric Chevy	1 answer
He wrote "A Man for All Seasons"	1 answer
Hightail it out	1 answer
Hurry out	1 answer
Hustle away	1 answer
It goes with a nut	1 answer
It may be put in a washer	1 answer
It may come from out of the blue	1 answer
It may come from the blue	1 answer
It might be held by a nut	1 answer
It secures a nut	1 answer
It usually comes with a nut	1 answer
Its head may be over a washer	1 answer
Karloff's 1931 neckpiece	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ETEAR

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with BOLT (5)

These in thir dark Nativitie the Deep Shall yeild us, pregnant with infernal flame, Which into hallow Engins long and round Thick-rammd, at th’ other bore with touch of fire Dilated and infuriate shall send forth From far with thundring noise among our foes Such implements of mischief as shall dash To pieces, and orewhelm whatever stands Adverse, that they shall fear we have disarmd The Thunderer of his only dreaded bolt.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

TOPS-20 began in 1969 as Bolt, Beranek & Newman's TENEX operating system using special paging hardware.

The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992

Many items, including the HyperCard Tour to the Internet, freely available by anonymous ftp from nnsc.nsf.net NNSC Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc.

Surfing the Internet Jean Armour Polly 1993

Therefore, this morning, those two young gallants found every bar and bolt open in that lonely house on the Dover Road, their jailers disappeared, and two good horses standing ready saddled and tethered in the yard.

The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy 1993

For what seemed hours Carthoris squatted upon the stone floor of his prison, his back against the wall in which was sunk the heavy eye-bolt that secured the chain which held him.

Thuvia, Maid of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

Quotes with BOLT (3)

I learned... that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.

Brenda Ueland

Go ahead, God, you fat, filthy motherfucker, lightning-bolt my ass into oblivion if you're so tough!

Jeri Smith-Ready Requiem for the Devil

Imagination blocks you like a bolt on a door. Burn that bar. (Rumi)

Idries Shah Sufi Thought and Action

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 304 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).