Talk:bolt
Latest comment: 2 years ago by Roger the Rodger in topic RFV discussion: September–October 2021
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...
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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)