Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who makes bolts.
- noun A machine for making the threads on a screw-bolt; a bolt-threader or bolt-screwing machine.
- noun A tool for cutting off the ends of bolts.
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Examples
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The bolt-cutter caper might have landed Mr. Fry in jail even under the old regime, when the dog catcher was in charge of catching dogs.
For Town Cops, It Ana Campoy 2010
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Are there any good products that can't easily be opened with a pen, coin, freezing spray, beercan, purse-sized bolt-cutter or other everyday items a thief could easily carry around?
Laptop lock magnio 2009
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According to my sources, one helicopter even landed before the fire trucks had arrived (which are supposed to be on hand before a landing, in case of fire), and that when the trucks DID arrive, no one had the key to the locked gate on Fayette Place and the padlock had to be removed with a bolt-cutter.
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According to my sources, one helicopter even landed before the fire trucks had arrived (which are supposed to be on hand before a landing, in case of fire), and that when the trucks DID arrive, no one had the key to the locked gate on Fayette Place and the padlock had to be removed with a bolt-cutter.
Archive 2007-08-01 Dan 2007
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At 10.30 he and a small group of supporters were astonished to see a body of police blocking the road, while officials took a bolt-cutter to the chained gate of Harriet's field.
Archive 2007-01-01 Peter Troy 2007
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Nobody came, not till his grandmother got home from Winston and set him loose with a big bolt-cutter.
Noble Norfleet Reynolds Price 2002
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Moosa posed for photographers, smiling and holding aloft his bolt-cutter.
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Nobody came, not till his grandmother got home from Winston and set him loose with a big bolt-cutter.
Noble Norfleet Reynolds Price 2002
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"The burglars cut through bars, possibly with a bolt-cutter and took the magazines," she said.
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Its mouth was like some prehistoric bolt-cutter that could snap right through the bones of your fingers.
Summer of Deliverance Christopher Dickey 1998
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