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ˈboltless, a. [bolt n.1] Without a bolt or bolts (in various senses); not formed into bolts, as ‘boltless lightning’ (poet.).
1832I. Taylor Saturday Even. xv. 248 The boltless thunders of the mere man of rhetoric. c1877Theodore Watts in Westm. Gaz. (1900) 15 Feb. 10/1 'Mid boltless thunder. 1902‘Monkshood’ & Gamble R. Kipling 259 The boltless door. 1903Kipling Five Nations 75 We shall go back by boltless doors, To the life unaltered our childhood knew. |