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Plural of bolt

regular plural

The plural of bolt is bolts.

Forms of bolt

Singularbolt /bɒlt/
Pluralbolts /bəʊlts/
Countablecountable

Bolts in a sentence

  • She ordered Cat's Ear Noodles heaped with garlic bolts and tomatoes, the broth thick with cumin, laced with black vinegar.2017, Adam Brookes, The Spy's Daughter, Redhook, →ISBN
  • He had seen lightning bolts yesterday night.
  • Two of the bolts were loose, but every other bolt I checked was fine.From the entry every other
  • It's really not so hard, once you know the nuts and bolts of the editing process.From the entry nuts and bolts
  • The engine had self-sealing gaskets to keep the grease in, just tighten the bolts.From the entry self-sealing

Meaning of bolt

  1. noun A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a cylindrical body that is threaded, with a larger head on one end. It can be inserted into an unthreaded hole up to the head, with a nut then threaded on the other end; a heavy machine screw.
  2. noun A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism.
  3. noun A bar of wood or metal dropped in horizontal hooks on a door and adjoining wall or between the two sides of a double door, to prevent the door(s) from being forced open.

Full definition of bolt

Questions about the plural of bolt

What is the plural of bolt?
The plural of bolt is bolts.
Is bolt countable?
Bolt is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bolt (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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