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Definition of Boltheads
1. bolthead [n] - See also: bolthead
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boltheads
Literary usage of Boltheads
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Marine Engineering (a Text-book) by Albert Edward Tompkins (1908)
"Guard plates are fitted so that the screws cannot slack back, and there is
generally one plate between each pair of boltheads. The plate is kept in place by ..."
2. Practical Blacksmithing by Milton T. Richardson (1889)
"A Clamp for Holding Countersunk boltheads. I enclose an illustration, Fig.
197, of a clamp that I use in holding countersunk ..."
3. The Innocents Abroad, Or, The New Pilgrims' Progress by Mark Twain (1879)
"The appearance of the city is peculiar. It is as knobby with countless little
domes as a prison door is with boltheads. Every house has from one to half a ..."
4. The Journal of Science (1864)
"Tho only loss of life in these structures has been from boltheads flying off;
but now that the use of through bolts has been dispensed with, this cause of ..."
5. Sport: Attempt at a Bibliography of Books and Periodicals Published During ...by C. M. van Stockum by C. M. van Stockum (1911)
"... on British standard threads, nuts and boltheads, for use in automobile
construction. folio.1911.swd.2s.6d.net. 6477 Butler (II. J.). ..."
6. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1915)
"... danger sign beside a motor and then send a man up a ladder to oil a running
lineshaft upon which there are projecting setscrews, or keys, or boltheads. ..."
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