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deck bolt

American  

noun

Shipbuilding.

  1. a flat-headed bolt for fastening down deck planking.

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By the time a cameraman chasing the great champion had clipped his winged heels and sent them both to the deck, Bolt was halfway round his lap of honour and his latest line-up of victims trudging out of the stadium with their spikes slung round their necks.

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