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A piece of timber fixed on the bilge ways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.

A square piece or fragment. He bolted his food down his capacious throat in squares of three inches. Sir W. Scott.

inguished from a trundle-bed). Standing army. See Standing army, under Army. -- Standing bolt. See Stud bolt, under Stud, a stem. -- Standing committee, in legislative bodies, etc., a committee appointed for the consideration of all subjects of a particular class which shall arise during the session or a stated perio…

position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate; as, to start a bone; the storm started the bolts in the vessel. One, by a fall in wrestling, started the end of the clavicle from the sternum. Wiseman.

Strictly, a part in tension to hold the parts together, or stiffen them. Stay bolt (Mech.), a bolt or short rod, connecting opposite plates, so as to prevent them from being bulged out when acted upon by a pressure which tends to force them apart, as in the leg of a steam boiler. -- Stay busk, a stiff piece of wood, s…

A piece of curved timber bolted to the stem, keelson, and apron in a ship's frame near the bow.

The end of a ship's keelson, to which the sternpost is bolted; -- called also stern knee.

ther. Prov. xviii. 24. I am a kind of bur; I shall stick. Shak. If on your fame our sex a bolt has thrown, 'T will ever stick through malice of your own. Young.

r chain passing through the anchor ring, to secure the anchor to the cathead. -- Stopper bolt (Naut.), a large ringbolt in a ship's deck, to which the deck stoppers are hooked.

A shoulder strap. See under Shoulder. Strap bolt, a bolt of which one end is a flat bar of considerable length. -- Strap head (Mach.), a journal box, or pair of brasses, secured to the end of a connecting rod by a strap. See Illust. of Gib and key, under Gib. -- Strap hinge, a hinge with long flaps by which it is fas…

An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.

To tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the thread is stripped.

A stud bolt.

, called the gland, which fits loosely around the rod, and is pressed upon the packing by bolts or other means.

A pin in a tumbler lock which forms an obstruction to throwing the bolt, except when the gates of the tumblers are properly arranged, as by the key; a fence; also, a pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece. Leg stump (Cricket), the stump nearest to the batsman. -- Off stump (Cricket), the stump…

ge block, a perforated block of iron, having grooved sides and adapted for use in heading bolts and swaging objects of large size.

the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the boltrope.

The shoulder of the bolt of a lock on which the key acts to shoot the bolt. Knight.

l on tap. -- Plug tap (Mech.), a screw-cutting tap with a slightly tapering end. -- Tap bolt, a bolt with a head on one end and a thread on the other end, to be screwed into some fixed part, instead of passing through the part and receiving a nut. See Illust. under Bolt. -- Tap cinder (Metal.), the slag of a puddlin…

A tubular piece, generally a strut, through which a bolt or pin passes.