unbolted
/ˈʌnbˌoʊltɪd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.55 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of unbolt
adj
Not sifted.
Example Sentences
- "[…] it seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may afterwards be censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief."
- "unbolted flour"
- "[The slave] toils that another may reap the fruit; he is industrious that another may live in idleness; he eats unbolted meal that another may eat the bread of fine flour; he labors in chains at home, under a burning sun and biting lash, that another may ride in ease and splendor abroad […]"
- "My lord, if you’ll give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar and daub the walls of a jakes with him."