bolt sb. (the senses ‘door-fastening’ and ‘thunderbolt’ occur; 2 was common from 1480 to 1690)
1.
arrow, esp. one of the
stouter and shorter kind with blunt or thickened
head
MND. II. i. 165
“the bolt of
Cupid,”
Cym. IV. ii. 300; “A fool's bolt is soon
shot” (proverb common from the 13th to 18th
c.) H5 III. vii. 137; “I'll make a shaft or a bolt
on't,” I'll risk making something or
other out of it, I'll make the venture Wiv. III. iv. 24.