safety bolt

1. 1.

   a bolt that cannot be moved from outside the door or gate

   Synonymssafety lock

   Broaderbolt

Questions about safety bolt

What does safety bolt mean?

safety bolt means "a bolt that cannot be moved from outside the door or gate".

What is another word for safety bolt?

Close synonyms include safety lock. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is safety bolt a common word?

safety 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.