bolt
noun
a movable bar or rod that when slid into a socket fastens a door, gate, etc.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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Well, the truth is that I am bolting.
From The Slave of the Lamp by Henry Seton Merriman