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bird-bolt

bird-bolt is the alternative form of birdbolt.

Meaning of birdbolt

Noun

birdbolt (plural birdbolts)

  1. A short blunt arrow for killing birds without piercing them.
  2. (figuratively) Anything that smites without penetrating.
    • To be generous, / guiltless and of free disposition, is to take those / things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets:c. 1601–1602, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, act 1, scene 5, lines 86–88

Forms of bird-bolt

pluralbird-bolts

Questions about bird-bolt

What is bird-bolt the alternative form of?
Bird-bolt is the alternative form of birdbolt.

Words near bird-bolt in the dictionary

  1. bird's-nest orchid
  2. bird's-nest orchids
  3. bird's-nest soup
  4. bird's-tongue
  5. bird-alane
  6. bird-bolt
  7. bird-brained
  8. bird-cage
  9. bird-cages
  10. bird-catcher
  11. bird-catcher tree

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