Bolt

bolt btk 1. To fasten or make fast, the locking of a door or entry way; the placement of barriers to progress. 2. To flee suddenly, to engage in energetic egression, to move away, fully; i.e embarassed, he bolted from the party. 3. An ill-used Gnomic euphemism for ritual murder by strangulation often involving the use of string, tangled yo-yo's, a wooden spoon or double-gloved hands. 4. The female counterpart of a screw, plainly, a nut. 5. Used as shorthand, or in quip, for "lightning bolt".

Extrapolation

The citizens of [Ancient Western Society|ancient western societies]] are believed to have worshipped bolts of lightning, in the form of radically charged air, often witnessed gasping surrounded by such, kneeling perhaps and certainly viewing the phenomena as a kind of very elaborate whuppin' from on yon.

Non Canonical Text

"...the lumbering idle-brained beast, head bolted on askew, moaning in agony and desire like a priest in jolly confession..."

See Also

• Knot
• Run!

Desiderata

The missile fired from a crossbow is known as a bolt.

Suffering from a cleft lip, Argy Boy referred to his wife's beauty as "a bold and short fellow, flailing obdurately, who arrived in the exactly opposite manner thus described."