bottom bolt

American  

noun

1. a bolt at the bottom of a door or the like, sliding into a socket in the floor or sill and equipped with a device for keeping it raised when the door is not fastened.

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Example Sentences

The bottom bolt had yielded, and now only the top one remained.

From True to Himself : or Roger Strong's Struggle for Place by Stratemeyer, Edward

There's a key and a chain and a bottom bolt.

From Harding's luck by Millar, H. R. (Harold Robert)

It is made to span the block, and is secured partly by the pin or bolt upon which the sheaves run, and partly by the bottom bolt, which unites the cheeks of the block.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 by Various

Then I silently shot the bottom bolt and noisily drew back the top one.

From The Uttermost Farthing A Savant's Vendetta by Freeman, R. Austin (Richard Austin)

There was a little difficulty with the bottom bolt, and she had to cry out: “I am sorry for keeping you waiting; this fastening will stick.”

From The Nebuly Coat by Falkner, John Meade