Bolting is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BOLTING in dictionary:

VERB:
• fasten (a door or window) with a bar that slides into a socket
• fasten (something) to something else with a long pin that screws into a nut
• (of a horse or other animal) run away suddenly, typically from fear
• (of a person) move or run away suddenly in an attempt to escape
• (in hunting) cause (a rabbit or fox) to run from its burrow or hole
• (of a plant) grow quickly upwards and stop flowering as seeds develop
• eat (food) quickly
• pass (flour, powder, or other material) through a sieve
NOUN:
• the act of sieving through cloth, also BOULTING
• a bar that slides into a socket to fasten a door or window.
• a long pin with a head that screws into a nut, used to fasten things together.
• the sliding piece of the breech mechanism of a rifle.
• a long pin that is driven into a rock face so that a rope can be attached to it.
• a short, heavy arrow shot from a crossbow.
• a jagged white flash of lightning.
• a roll of fabric, originally as a measure
• 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.
• A darting away; a starting off or aside.
• A sifting, as of flour or meal.
• A private arguing of cases for practice by students, as in the Inns of Court.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to sift

Words related to BOLTING

bolt6 bolted9 bolts7

Words that contain BOLTING

boltings11 unbolting12

How to use BOLTING in a sentence

• A quarter-of-an-hour usually sees him bolting and barring himself into the cellar, with the Babe blowing him kisses of fond farewell through the keyhole.
• They were quite willing all the same to shoot the bourgeois there at the wall, before bolting for covert, each to hide in his own hole.
• And mightily the chestnut answered those calls, bolting down the stretch.
• Brother Burge turned, and bolting into his room clapped the door to and locked it.
• The bolting of flour, introduced at the windmills, had given whiter and finer bread.
• It was a herd of big deer bolting suddenly out of the stillness.
• Still screaming, Eva fled to the next room, again bolting the door and piling furniture frantically to barricade it.
• It opened, and she flew into the room, slamming and bolting it behind her.
• In bolting the action of the State Convention Judge Robertson carried about nineteen other delegates with him over to Mr.
• Hogan, and she left her waggon and charged the latter, who fled in terror, bolting all her doors and throwing up a barricade in the passage.
• The next victim was a small boy on a pony, who, as soon as he heard the terrible command, fell plump on to the road and then jumped up and fled in terror after his bolting horse.
• Besides locking and bolting my door, I had moved an old wooden chest against it, which I had found under the bed.
• A May sowing planted out in a cold place may stand without bolting until spring is somewhat advanced.
• So she turned and ran into the room she used as a pantry, slamming the door behind her, bolting it and leaning against it, breathing heavily.
• Quick as lightning she was back at the door bolting it.
• There was a great bolting and locking and barring to be heard within, for it was rumoured that Mr.
• I told the story of our tracing him to the north of Scotland, and he gave me the particulars, in return, of his bolting from Darrock Hall.
• Tom Billings, bolting out of the box, and rushing towards the sweet-voiced Mrs.
• The horses acted as though they had never had any idea of bolting, and the film was finished.
• If you are desirous of catching a train, do not make the mistake of bolting a meal.
• This just goes to show how we are in the habit of bolting our food.
• A knot of Chinamen were studying a closed door from whose further side came a most unpleasant sound of bolting and locking up.
• Flying from that impact he skimmed the darkling ground so nearly he could see a frightened rabbit bolting up a slope.
• Murphy and Elerson joined him, bolting huge mouthfuls.
• To a rear door the old man led the American, and inside, closing and bolting the door after him.
• I took the precaution, before leaving, of bolting my door from the inside, lest Ephraim should visit me in my absence.
• It seems that in France the question whether the bolting of flour is advantageous has always been decided in the most arbitrary manner.
• Then man and beast as one flesh, as one mind, went bolting back through the rain-drenched, wind-ravished thicket to find their mates.
• It was JOHNNIE, whose horse was bolting with him, but who was just able to guide it sufficiently to keep it going in a circle instead of taking him far over hill and dale.
• And there he was, with Westmoreland and Laurence behind him as if to keep him from bolting.

Similar words containing BOLT without suffix ing

bolt6 bolts7 bolted9 bolter8 unbolt8 bolters9 dogbolt11 eyebolt12 hagbolt13 ragbolt10 unbolts9 bolthead14 bolthole13 boltings11 boltless10 boltlike14 boltonia10 boltrope12 deadbolt12 dogbolts12 eyebolts13 fishbolt16 hackbolt19 hagbolts14 kingbolt15 ragbolts11 ringbolt11 unbolted11 boltheads15 boltholes14 boltonias11 boltropes13 deadbolts13 fishbolts17 hackbolts20 kingbolts16 ringbolts12 unbolting12 thunderbolt17 thunderbolts18

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