unbolt
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After collecting their tools and making their way to the right-side exterior truss, the astronauts had just 35 minutes to unbolt the failed unit and install the replacement.
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
She dared not try to unbolt the great front door but instead tiptoed cautiously through the cold company room into the back chamber and let herself out the shed door into the garden.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
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
No. 6 unbolts trail-wheel, and ships handspike in its socket of trail.
From Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. by United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance
Enter ARETHUSA, L., with candle; she lights another; and passes to door, R., which she unbolts.
From Plays of William E. Henley and R.L. Stevenson by William Ernest Henley
Last April, as part of the city’s reconstruction of Victor Steinbrueck Park, the poles were unbolted from their plinths and delivered to Discovery Park, where they have rested side by side, unprotected from the elements.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 23, 2023
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
"The tigers got loose when a shutter of their cage was left unbolted," Prince-Cox explained.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 15, 2013
She unbolted the door and opened it a crack.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
The U.S. better start unbolting the trophy from the New York Yacht Club.
From Time Magazine Archive
However, he went to the length of unbolting it, and opening and shutting it several times; this he did with the utmost precaution against making any noise.
From The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
Then just as I too had begun to shuffle my frozen feet, I heard a scratching sound, the unbolting of a shutter, and Gervase drew up the sash softly.
From Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Thence unbolting a door, we were enabled to reach the roof of the chancel; this was composed of lead, and was quite flat, with a high stone coping all round it.
From The Young Dragoon Every Day Life of a Soldier by A.W. Drayson
Open is the window, no grating noise has accompanied the unbolting of the shutter....
From A Ghetto Violet From "Christian and Leah" by A. S. Arnold
