burbolt
English
editNoun
editburbolt (plural burbolts)
- Obsolete form of birdbolt.
- 1621, John Ford, Thomas Dekker, William Rowley, The Witch of Edmonton:
- I saw a little devil fly out of her eye like a burbolt, which sticks at this hour up to the feathers in my heart
References
edit“burbolt”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.