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▪ I. unˈbolted, ppl. a.1
[un-1 8 and un-2 8.]
1. Not fastened with a bolt; released by withdrawal of a bolt.
c1580Bugbears i. ii. 132 A window which I left unbolted. 1711S. Centlivre Marplot i, Let me see, is my trap-door unbolted? 1779Johnson L.P., Milton (1868) 45 To sleep with doors unbolted. 1874Swinburne Bothwell ii. xviii, The strait garden-plot..Whereto the door that opens from beneath Shall stand unbolted. 1891C. Roberts Adrift Amer. 57 Most are content to hunt for an unbolted end door.
2. Not fastened together with a bolt or bolts.
1793Smeaton Edystone L. §262 The bolt and shackle..had got its forelock broken or beat out, and then..it could not be long before the shackle became unbolted.
▪ II. unˈbolted, ppl. a.2
Also 6 vnbulted, 6–7 unboulted.
[un-1 8.]
Not bolted or sifted.
1598Florio, Semolato, a kind of course vnboulted bread, full of branne. 1611Cotgr., Pain de fenestre,..bread made of vnboulted corne. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme v. xx. 577 It is made of meale vnboulted, the branne and the meale being all knodden together. 1857R. Tomes Amer. in Japan ix. 200 The flour, however, remains unbolted, but makes a good and sweet bread. 1871G. H. Napheys Prev. & Cure Dis. ii. i. 406 Take a tablespoonful of unbolted flour.
fig.1570Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) iii. 2033/2 Leauyng the very truth of the matter vnbulted out by the word of God. 1605Shakes. Lear ii. ii. 70, I will tread this vnboulted villaine into morter, and daube the wall of a Iakes with him. |