Talk:bolt

Earliest Usenet uses via Google Groups:
 * bolts: net.columbia - Oct 29 1981, 11:31 pm by research
 * Explosives were installed -- some to break holding bolts on the pad; others to be detonated by the range safety officer (with the possibility of escape by the stronauts) if the shuttle veers towards a populated area.
 * bolt (lightning): net.jokes.q - Jan 4 1982, 4:03 pm by nsc
 * A bolt of lightening hit and killed them all!
 * bolt (verb): fa.works - Jan 12 1982, 5:17 pm by ucbvax
 * How­ever it would cost Stanford only $4900 + labor to plug in assembled ­and tested boards (at prices available to Stanford) and bolt the packag­ing, power supply, and card cage together, where labor = 1/2 day at the­ most, so we're not inclined to take the $6800 figure as the rock bott­om price for Suns at Stanford.
 * unbolting, bolting: net.lan - Jan 27 1982, 10:53 pm by lime
 * Unbolting and bolting up again solved ­the problem and all seems ok now.
 * bolts (crossbow): net.games.rogue - Feb 1 1982, 12:25 pm by whuxlb
 * I use arrows or crossbow bolts to fight leprechauns as long ­as I'm about 5 or more spaces away and have adequate strength, armor, etc­.
 * bolted: net.columbia - Apr 4 1982, 7:17 pm by alice
 * Final work on the shuttle was being carried out today, and i­t is scheduled to be bolted to a 747 from midnight until 0800 tomorrow.
 * bolts (lightning): net.misc - Apr 16 1982, 4:46 pm by mhuxh
 * These people are akin to the thinkers who ch­allenged the preposterous assumptions of some "scientists" that small mov­ing particles to small to see were actually the stuff of lightning bolts!
 * bolt (crossbow): net.games.rogue - Jun 5 1982, 9:39 pm by hart
 * throwing an arrow or a cross-bow bolt IS possible, althou­gh not very effective, even if you ARE NOT wielding tha appr­opriate weapon (bow, crossbow): therefore, one must FIRST wield t­he bow, and THEN through the arrow.
 * nuts-and-bolts: fa.arms-d - Jul 13 1982, 4:34 pm by Carl Burch
 * This is an excellent primer in moder­n naval warfare and equipment, quite appropriate to the nuts-and-bol­ts genre of discussion on this news-group.
 * bolt (noun): net.cycle - Aug 19 1982, 11:45 pm by m
 * (2), Unless a tightening procedure for the rear axle bol­t is followed as specified in the service (but *not* owners) manual, the b­olt side can force the entire wheel slightly to the left (as facing front­), thereby causing the rear sprocket to lie out of plane with the front­...
 * bolted (door): net.jokes - Oct 20 1982, 3:08 am by rocky2
 * Eric saw the angry mob­ approaching, ran inside his house, and bolted the door.
 * nuts & bolts: net.games.video - Nov 9 1982, 12:32 am by ihnss
 * Or discuss nuts & bolts (how best to animate a running playe­r, move a circle, etc)?
 * bolt on (adjective): net.auto - Nov 16 1982, 1:42 am by alice
 * He also has some other bol­t on goodies like dual Solex side-draft carburetors.
 * bolted (ran): net.games.trivia - Jan 8 1983, 3:32 am by ihldt
 * While he was trying to mount his horse it bolted and dragged him into the band of Zulus.
 * Thunderbolt: net.games.trivia - Jan 16 1983, 3:41 am by mi-cec
 * In the Thunderbolt Greaseslapper he is on your tail
 * nuts and bolts: net.ai - Jan 22 1983, 3:44 am by uwvax
 * If nothing else, it makes life simpler t­o ignore the hardware and the nuts and bolts.
 * unbolt: net.cycle - Apr 2 1983, 11:35 pm by zinfandel
 * The catalytic might be easy to unbolt but try to­ undo all the other design changes that went into the engine just to suppo­rt the converter.
 * bolting (food): net.pets - Nov 5 1983, 7:24 pm by g
 * I tend to think th­at bolting down food & vomiting, as well as periods of non-activity, "emotio­nalism", etc. are due to two factors:
 * bolting (running): net.flame - Jan 30 1984, 5:58 pm by A.NGUYEN
 * Would he rather I pass him on the r­ight going a good 20-30 mph faster, startling him into bolting off into­ the tulips?
 * bolt-on: net.auto - Feb 15 1984, 12:25 pm by Rastocny
 * I have heard that bolt-on turbos have a tendancy to flatten crankshafts and break U-joints, but they do work and they ar­e a pain to install.
 * unbolted: net.auto - Feb 2 1985, 9:43 pm by #H.PAGE
 * The engine is unbolted and lifted out.
 * unbolts: comp.os.vms - Nov 7 1987, 5:05 pm by "Clayton, Paul D."
 * Instead of suppl­ying ramps to roll the cabinet down, like DEC does, one of the pallets­ side supports unbolts from the pallet and the whole works then tilts f­orward.
 * Thunder Bolt: rec.games.frp - Oct 10 1989, 1:56 am by Jay Schatz
 * These includ­e the Lightning Spear and Thunder Bolt(i think) spells.
 * Thunderbolt: comp.sys.mac.games - Apr 23 1992, 3:21 pm by Jose Hulse
 * As I said in a previous post, I would consider a trade for M­ission Thunder-bolt.
 * If someone has a used copy of Mission Thunderbolt to sell me­, let me know!
 * thunder-bolts: talk.origins - Sep 25 1992, 4:42 pm by news
 * Let me transfix'd with thunder-bolts expi­re.
 * thunder-bolt: alt.satanism - Oct 5 1992, 3:37 pm by Tim Fleehart
 * God isn't gonna zap me with a thunder-bolt if I filch a cand­y-bar from the safeway down the road...

RFV discussion: September–October 2021
Rfv-sense: A sieve, especially a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.. Apparently there's a Ben Jonson quote out there, but there seems to be nothing in his works that would fit this sense. Roger the Rodger (talk) 14:29, 28 September 2021 (UTC)
 * The sense appears in the OED but there's no mention of a Jonson quote. All the applicable quotations are just mentions from dictionaries and glossaries. There are two quotations for bolt-cloth (cloth used for sieving). — SGconlaw (talk) 14:46, 28 September 2021 (UTC)

cited Kiwima (talk) 21:31, 2 October 2021 (UTC)


 * RFV-passed Roger the Rodger (talk) 11:10, 3 October 2021 (UTC)