unbolt
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Wiseman then switched to a ratchet wrench to unbolt the failed device, known as a sequential shunt unit, or SSU.
From Reuters ● Oct. 15, 2014
“What if I found a way to unbolt the metal screens and crawl through the fan ducts into your cell, would you let me do it?”
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2014
Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service could not cut the spike as it was too thick, opting instead to unbolt it.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2014
Grissom, White and Chaffee tried — briefly — to unbolt the hatch, but they were quickly overcome.
From Time ● Jan. 28, 2011
When they reached the very bottom and the wall rose frowning above them, Lasaraleen was shaking so that she could not unbolt the gate.
From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis
The monk woman unbolts a door, barely big enough for a medium-sized Labrador, and I stoop through.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2017
Some love seats and sofas are built with a frame system that unbolts easily once the dust cover on the bottom is removed, while others are a lot trickier to take apart.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 26, 2016
At the door he stops, collects himself, and quietly unbolts the door.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Yet on the third night she actually unbolts it herself and leaving it unbolted puts out her light and goes to bed.
From The Broken Road by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
After about three hours, a knock is heard, and Mary Dodge unbolts the door.
From Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 by Carson Jay Lee
Arrays of Russian sensors to sniff, scour and study the planet’s environment may have to be unbolted and replaced and a non-Russian launcher rocket found if the suspension of their collaboration becomes a lasting rupture.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 27, 2022
For example, a converted 1991 Porsche can be unbolted and retuned back to its original state.
From The Verge ● Nov. 22, 2021
The impact unbolted a large crystal chandelier above the ambassador’s desk that missed his head by inches.
From The New Yorker ● May 13, 2016
Waits, on a dare, unbolted it from the front of a downtown bar one night.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 7, 2012
The shed door was still unbolted, and she let herself in and crept noiselessly through the house.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
The U.S. better start unbolting the trophy from the New York Yacht Club.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was roused by an unbolting of bars, the turning of huge, unwieldy keys, and the lieutenant of the castle stood before him.
From International Weekly Miscellany — Volume 1, No. 2, July 8, 1850 by Various
He knocked, however, and rang boldly; and after a brief delay, and considerable noise of unbolting and unbarring, was admitted.
From Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. by Charles James Lever
"No—she can stay only one night," said Hepzibah, unbolting the door.
From House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Yes, I could hear the heavy step of the older woman down in the hall unlocking, unbolting, unchaining the door ... that the housemaid and I might lose no time when she was ready.
From My Little Sister by Elizabeth Robins
