nut and bolt

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   a fastener made by screwing a nut onto a threaded bolt

   Broaderfastener

   Partsboltnut

Questions about nut and bolt

What does nut and bolt mean?

nut and bolt means "a fastener made by screwing a nut onto a threaded bolt".

Is nut and bolt a common word?

nut and 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.