1. To support with a bolster or pillow. S. Sharp.
2. To support, hold up, or maintain with difficulty or unusual effort; — often with up. To bolster baseness. Drayton. Shoddy inventions designed to bolster up a factitious pride. Compton Reade.
BOLSTERED
Bol"stered, a.
1. Supported; upheld.
2. Swelled out.
BOLSTERER
Bol"ster*er, n.
Defn: A supporter.
BOLT
Bolt, n. Etym: [AS. bolt; akin to Icel. bolti, Dan. bolt, D. bout,
OHG. bolz, G. bolz, bolzen; of uncertain origin.]
1. A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or that which resembles an arrow; a dart. Look that the crossbowmen lack not bolts. Sir W. Scott. A fool's bolt is soon shot. Shak.
2. Lightning; a thunderbolt.