unbolt
/ˈʌnbˌoʊlt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.58 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Then, sweet my lord, I’ll call mine uncle down; He shall unbolt the gates."
- "Diesel engines roar, trailer trucks rumble over the streets and an air wrench screams as a worker at the tire repair shop on the corner unbolts a wheel from a sanitation truck."
- "A young orangutan in the San Diego Zoo became famous for unbolting the screening of his crib, removing the wires, and moving through the zoo nursery, unscrewing lightbulbs."
- "Then I hid the knife I kept under my pillow, cleaned the dust from my shoes, and carefully unbolted the door."
Etymology
From un- + bolt.