bolt in Danish

A bar of wood or metal dropped in horizontal hooks on a door and adjoining wall or between the two sides of a double door, to prevent the door(s) from being forced open.

A bar of wood or metal dropped in horizontal hooks on a door and adjoining wall or between the two sides of a double door, to prevent the door(s) from being forced open.

(military, mechanical engineering) A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a cartridge in a firearm.

An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.