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(figuratively) Anything that smites without penetrating.
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(science fiction) Alternative form of blaster (“hand weapon”) [Anything that, or anyone who blasts.]
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(firearms, intransitive, idiomatic) To fire (firearms) repeatedly.
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(countable) A sudden attack, especially an air raid; usually with reference to the Blitz.
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A dart fired from a blowpipe or blowgun.
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A sudden event, action or emotion.
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A person or thing that bolts, or runs suddenly.
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Fine meshed cloth used to line sieves for grading flour or meal.
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(transitive) To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
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Alternative form of bolt (“to sift”) [To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.]
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A short burst (of energy)
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(obsolete) A small trickling stream; a rill.
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(idiomatic) An unconventional or counterintuitive solution to a difficult problem.
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(ironworking) The blast produced by a fan, as distinguished from that produced by a blowing-engine.
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The act by which something is fanned.
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(idiomatic, US) Any pointless, unproductive, useless, or chaotic activity.
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(transitive, rare) To strike with a firebolt.
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Alternative form of fire whirls plural of firewhirl
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To use a hone to produce a precision bore.
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(intransitive, metallurgy) Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying.
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An accidental chain reaction in which one explosion sets off others
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(obsolete, UK, dialect) A bolting sieve to sift meal.
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A bolt used to anchor the surface of rock
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A bolt used for forcing another bolt out of its hole.
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To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
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(transitive, plumbing) To spread the end of a pipe outward so as to form a wide thin flange.
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To forge (something) with a tilt hammer.
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(UK, dialect, obsolete) A screen, or sieve, for grain.
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A fan or other contrivance, such as a sieve, for winnowing grain.
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(Scotland) A form of sieve used to winnow grain; the weight of its contents.
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(transitive) To wash (cloth), dip it in dye, etc., with the use of a wince.
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