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noun
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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How to use bottom bolt in a sentence
Then I silently shot the bottom bolt and noisily drew back the top one.
The Uttermost Farthing|R. Austin FreemanIt is not true that the bottom bolt was never used to secure the door; it was bolted that night.