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bolthead

noun

Etymology

From bolt + head.

  1. inherited from *káput✻ — “head”
  2. inherited from *haubudą✻ — “head”
  3. inherited from *haubud✻
  4. inherited from hēafod — “head; top; leader; origin”
  5. inherited from efd
  6. compounded as bolthead — “bolt + head”

Definitions

  1. A round-bottomed flask with a long neck (used especially for distillation)

  2. The head of a bolt.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bolthead. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA