Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In machinery, a bolt or rod binding together opposite plates to enable them to sustain each other against internal pressure.
- noun Specifically, in locomotive-boilers, the bolt screwed into the parallel plates of the water-legs, or the crown-sheet and the wagon-top sheets, riveted over at both ends, and serving to keep each from deformation by pressure.
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An hour later when Miss Northwestern called him for a price on stay-bolt iron she did not ring off for fifteen minutes, and at the end of that time she promised to take the first opportunity of having another chat.
Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913
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