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bolting

bolting is the present participle and gerund of bolt.

Noun

bolting (plural boltings)

  1. An act of bolting or running away.
  2. A sifting, as of flour or meal.
  3. A private arguing of cases for practice by students, as in the Inns of Court.

Meaning of bolt

Verb

bolt (third-person singular simple present bolts, present participle bolting, simple past and past participle bolted)

  1. (transitive) To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.
    • Bolt the vice to the bench.
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To affix in a crude or unnatural manner.
    • Most languages are *not* based on C++. C++ is a complicated mess. It's C with object oriented features bolted on as an afterthought and no-one in their right mind would want to base another language on it.2000 September 14, Brennan Young, “to all of you pro programmers out there.”, in macromedia.flash (Usenet)
  3. (transitive) To secure a bolt or bolts; to lock using a bolt.
    • Bolt the door.
  4. (intransitive) To flee, to depart, to accelerate away suddenly.
    • Seeing the snake, the horse bolted.
  5. (intransitive) To escape.
  6. (transitive) To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted).
    • to bolt a rabbit

See all 36 meanings of bolt

Forms of bolting

pluralboltings

Words formed from bolting

Phrases with bolting

Questions about bolting

What does bolting mean?
Bolting means an act of bolting or running away.
What is bolting the present participle and gerund of?
Bolting is the present participle and gerund of bolt.
What part of speech is bolting?
Bolting is a noun.
What is the plural of bolting?
The plural of bolting is boltings.

Words near bolting in the dictionary

  1. boltheads
  2. bolthole
  3. boltholes
  4. bolti
  5. bolties
  6. bolting
  7. bolting cloth
  8. bolting down
  9. bolting in
  10. bolting to the bran
  11. boltings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bolting (page history and authors); bolt (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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