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
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
The devil rarely bolts and unbolts his door for his own guests.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
Enter Arethusa, L., with candle; she lights another; and passes to door, R., which she unbolts.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV by Robert Louis Stevenson
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
Even the America’s Cup was finally unbolted from its display case at the New York Yacht Club after 132 years.
From The Guardian ● May 4, 2018
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
He unbolted the many locks of the office and grimaced as he looked around the room.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
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
One precaution the visitors had taken, that of unbolting the back door, so that retreat might not be barred in case they were discovered.
From A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier by Edwin Willard Deming
As he was unbolting the trap, Walter ran into a bedroom and seized an armful of blankets, then ran up the ladder to the trapdoor, and stepped out on to the roof.
From Orange and Green A Tale of the Boyne and Limerick by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
He therefore commenced proceedings by putting his arm over the half-door of the bar, coolly unbolting it, and leisurely walking in.
From The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
