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Date "BOLTON" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Bolton The Bolton Ass. This creature is said to have chewed tobacco and taken snuff. (Dr. Doran.) Bate me an ace, quoth Bolton. Give me some advantage. What you say must be qualified, as it is too strong. Ray says that a collection of proverbs were once presented to the Virgin Queen, with the assurance that it contained all the proverbs in the language; but the Queen rebuked the boaster with the proverb, "Bate me an ace, quoth Bolton," a proverb omitted in the compilation. John Bolton was one of the courtiers who used to play cards and dice with Henry VIII., and flattered the king by asking him to allow him an ace or some advantage in the game. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Bolton is a town in Greater Manchester urban area, England, and part of the historic county of Lancashire. It has a population of about 260,000 which makes it one of the largest non-cities in the United Kingdom. It used to be a metropolitan district under the Greater Manchester Council, but is now a Unitary Authority.
As with many early settlements, the river and valley was the main reason for settlers to choose Bolton. Agriculture was the chief occupation of the residents, the moors ideal grazing land, the fleece of the sheep woven for the local population. Although initially the textiles made were for local use, word spread about the quality, and at around 1100, government officials of Richard I were appointed to measure and mark the cloth. This reputation attracted Flemish weavers to settle in Bolton about 1337. They introduced spinning and weaving, and also clog making. It was still a cottage industry and the town gained a reputation for quality, with more textile workers drawn to the industry, producing wool garments. In around 1540 John Le'land, antiquary to Henry VIII wrote:
"Bolton Moore market stands most my cottons and coarse yarns. Divers villages in the moores about Bolton do make cottons. They burn at Bolton some canale, but more se cole, of which the pittes be not far off".
(Reference to 'cottons' was in fact wool, cotton came around 100 years later). Evidence indeed that coal was used in Bolton, and the existence of an industry in the villages about Bolton. The town's textile industry intensified during the nineteenth century, the population booming by two orders of magnitude. Today, the textile trade has all but vanished.
History
Bolton-le-Moors was a settlement in a natural valley on the West Pennine Moors on the banks of the River Croal, and the Manor of Bolton is first recorded in 1067, as being owned by the Montgomery family. However the earliest evidence for any settlement in Bolton goes back to the Bronze Age, with a stone circle in Egerton. Bolton was part of a large area owned by the Crown after the Norman invasion in 1066. The spoils of war left it a largely barren area, but a baron of William the Conqueror, Roger de Poictou, responsible for Liverpool and Lancaster Castles, was given the land between the River Ribble and River Mersey to the west of Manchester. It was subsequently passed back to the Crown, then on to Ranulf de Bricasard, third Earl of Chester, and transferred to Roger de Maresy. Of the intervening families to whom this manor passed, most held position of the Earl of Derby. Sport
Bolton has a Premier League football club called Bolton Wanderers F.C.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bolton."
Crosswords: BOLTON |
| English words defined with "BOLTON": Boltonite ♦ deservedly. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "BOLTON": Bate me an Ace, Bolt in Tun ♦ Public-house Signs. (references) |
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Screenplays | Yeah, well at least your name isn't Michael Bolton. (Office Space; writing credit: Mike Judge) Joseph Stalin, Michael Bolton, you get the picture! (Ready to Rumble; writing credit: Steven Brill) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Mamie Bolton (1912) | |
Song Titles | How Am I Supposed To Live Without You (performing artist: Michael Bolton) How Can We Be Lovers (performing artist: Michael Bolton) Love Is A Wonderful Thing (performing artist: Michael Bolton) Missing You Now (performing artist: Michael Bolton) Said I Loved You...But I Lied (performing artist: Michael Bolton) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | April Bolton prepares boxes for packing with American Classic Tea bags on the Charleston Tea Plantation in SC. Credit: USDA. |  | Frances Payne Bolton. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Green Island and the Narrows from Bolton Hill, Lake George, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Bolton Bay from Green Island, Lake George. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "BOLTON" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BOLTON" is used about 580 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 580 | 10,911 |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "BOLTON" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Bolton | Last name | 13,000 | 948 |
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Malaysia | Bolton Berhad | South Africa | Bolton Footwear Limited |
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1. Bolton, CT 2. Bolton, MA 3. Bolton, MS (town, FIPS 7540) 4. Bolton, NC (town, FIPS 6860) |
Expressions using "BOLTON": Bolton Landing ♦ Bolton sheeting ♦ Bolton Valley. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "BOLTON": bolton-based, bolton-born, Bolton-bury, Bolton-hunter, Bolton-le-sands. | |
Ending with "BOLTON": Darwen-bolton. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "BOLTON"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 伯å‹'屯. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | oltonbay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "BOLTON": boltonia, boltonias. (additional references) | |
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"BOLTON" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Beldon, Belfon, Beltona, Bepton, Biolyon, Blytons, Bocton, Boeton, Boldron, Bolshoy, Bolten, Boltho, Boltons, Bontron, Booton, Borton, Boutons, Burlton, Poltown. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-l-n-o-o-t" | |
-2 letters: blot, bolo, bolt, boon, boot, lobo, loon, loot, nolo, obol, onto, tool, toon. | |
-3 letters: boo, bot, lob, loo, lot, nob, noo, not, oot, ton, too. | |
-4 letters: bo, lo, no, on, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-l-n-o-o-t" | |
+2 letters: boltonia, lobation, longboat, oblation. | |
+3 letters: abolition, boltonias, doubleton, lobations, longboats, oblations. | |
+4 letters: abolitions, absolution, balloonist, bilocation, biocontrol, bloodstain, bloodstone, bloviation, bottomland, buttonhole, clothbound, conglobate, doubletons, immunoblot, lobulation, obligation, obsoleting, potboiling, tablespoon, tourbillon. | |
+5 letters: absolutions, balloonists, bilocations, biocontrols, bloodstains, bloodstones, bloviations, bootlegging, bootlicking, bottomlands, bounteously, buttonholed, buttonholer, buttonholes, cobblestone, conglobated, conglobates, counterblow, elaboration, haptoglobin, immunoblots, lobulations, obligations, obsolescent, odontoblast, outblooming, paleobotany, postponable, probational, tablespoons, tourbillion, tourbillons. | |
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