A trick question -- sort of

[Rocket]

What is a bolt??
I asked this elsewhere and got one answer but not what I was looking for.

[handijoe]

BOLT means 'sudden veering from a straight course. "

[Rocket]

probaly no longer used it was a gun used to put bady injured horses down. Place against the head of a horse it shot out a retractable bolt. It was used in steeplechase in England.

[handijoe]

rocket Cannot find about the gun thing/meanig of bolt as posted came from horse racing terms glossary directory??

[sound]

they still use that bolt gun to put cows down at the slaughter houses.

first they stun them, then bolt in the dome, then slash the throat and hang them upside down.

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