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birdbolts

birdbolts is the plural 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

Questions about birdbolts

What is birdbolts the plural of?
Birdbolts is the plural of birdbolt.

Words near birdbolts in the dictionary

  1. birdbanders
  2. birdbanding
  3. birdbath
  4. birdbaths
  5. birdbolt
  6. birdbolts
  7. birdbox
  8. birdboxes
  9. birdbrain
  10. birdbrained
  11. birdbrains

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