What does unbolted mean?
Unbolted means simple past and past participle of unbolt.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
simple past and past participle of unbolt.
[…] 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.
Use unbolted when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Unbolted means simple past and past participle of unbolt.
Common synonyms include unfastened, unlocked, unbarred, unsecured.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[…] 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.
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