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Definition of the verb bolt down

What does bolt down mean as a doing phrase?

verb

1. drink down entirely
   • syntax:

     Syntactic formula	Example for the syntactic formula
     [Agent - being] [Verb] [Patient]	Cynthia ate the peach | Cynthia devoured the pizza | Cynthia drank the wine | Cynthia gobbled the pizza | Cynthia nibbled the carrot | Cynthia quaffed her mead | Cynthia sipped the drink | Cynthia swilled the beverage
     [Agent - being] [Verb] [Patient] down	Cynthia gobbled the pizza down
     [Agent - being] [Verb] [Patient] up	Cynthia gobbled the pizza up

     Verbs of Ingesting (with the same syntax): bolt, gobble, wolf.

   • lexical domain: Consumption - verbs of eating and drinking
   • synonyms of bolt down: belt down / down / drink down / kill / pop / pour down / toss off
   • more generic words: drink / imbibe = take in liquids
2. eat a large amount of food quickly
   • example: They bolt down more bread
   • syntax: the same syntax as for the sense 1
   • lexical domain: Consumption - verbs of eating and drinking
   • synonyms of bolt down: garbage down / gobble up / shovel in
   • more generic word: eat = take in solid food

Printed dictionaries and other books with definitions for bolt down

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Illustrated Engineering Dictionary (1999)

Bildwörterbuch Maschinenbau und Elektrotechnik by Heinz K. Flack, Georg Möllerke

Bolzen bolt down, to aufspannen (Werkstiick) bolted joint Schraubverbindung bolting Verschraubung bolt milling machine Bolzenschaft frasmaschine bolt, nut and tube threading machine Schrauben-, Mutter- und Rohrge- ...

Spons' dictionary of engineering, ed. by O. Byrne (and Spon). 8 div (1874)

by Oliver Byrne, Ernest Spon

A better arrangement, if it did not interfere with the space in the roof, would be to keep the tie-rods herizontal, or nearly so, and to continue the king- bolt down ...

Simon & Schuster Super Crossword Puzzle Dictionary And Reference Book (1999)

by Seth Godin, Lark Productions LLC, Seth Godin Productions

bolt down, downcast, downward, fine-tune, mastered, pour down, pull down, push down; 9 declining, depressed, down quark, downwards, drink down, go through, knock down, shoot down; 10 dispirited, downwardly; 11 downhearted, ...

Spons' Dictionary of Engineering, Civil, Mechanical, Military, and Naval (1874)

by Edward Spon, Oliver Byrne, Ernest Spon, Francis N. Spon

A better arrangement, if it did not interfere with the space in the roof, would be to keep the tie-rods herizontal, or nearly so, and to continuo the king- bolt down ...

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Usage statistics about bolt down

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Distribution of usage frequency for the most common synonyms of the verb bolt down:

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