Dictionary entry

Bolt (4)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Bolt, adv. In the manner of a bolt; suddenly; straight; unbendingly.

came bolt up against the heavy dragoon.

Thackeray.

Bolt upright. (a) Perfectly upright; perpendicular; straight up; unbendingly erect. Addison. (b) On the back at full length. Chaucer.