carriage bolt

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   a roundheaded bolt for timber; threaded along part of the shank; inserted into holes already drilled

   Broaderbolt

Questions about carriage bolt

What does carriage bolt mean?

carriage bolt means "a roundheaded bolt for timber; threaded along part of the shank; inserted into holes already drilled".

Is carriage bolt a common word?

carriage bolt is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.