kingbolt
English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]kingbolt (plural kingbolts)
- The main bolt of a structure, especially the bolt in a vehicle that links the chassis to the axle, providing the steering pivot.
- 1968, Charles Portis, True Grit:
- He come at me with a kingbolt and said, ‘Rooster, I am going to punch that other eye out.’
- 2006, Hampton Sides, Blood and Thunder, Abacus, published 2014, page 18:
- [A] third cauterized the severed arteries by applying a piping hot king bolt that had been removed from one of the wagons and heated in the fire.