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dogbolts

dogbolts is the plural of dogbolt.

Meaning of dogbolt

Noun (1)

dogbolt (plural dogbolts)

  1. (derogatory, obsolete) A fool; a contemptible person.
    • And experience sheweth, that he which was void of gifts before he was ordered priest, is as very an ass and dogbolt as he was before,[…].1583, William Fulke, edited by Charles Henry Hartsthorne, A Defence of the Sincere and True Translations of the Holy Scriptures into the English Tongue, against the Manifold Cavils of Gregory Martin...

Noun (2)

dogbolt (plural dogbolts)

  1. The bolt of the capsquare over the trunnion of a cannon.

Questions about dogbolts

What is dogbolts the plural of?
Dogbolts is the plural of dogbolt.

Words near dogbolts in the dictionary

  1. dogberryism
  2. dogberryisms
  3. dogbit
  4. dogbits
  5. dogbolt
  6. dogbolts
  7. dogbone
  8. dogbones
  9. dogboning
  10. dogbread
  11. dogbreath

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