The craft or process of manufacturing bolts, including designing, forming, and finishing them.
Gerund form of 'boltmake,' combining 'bolt' with the '-making' suffix. This trade term developed during industrialization to describe the specific production process.
Boltmaking was one of the first industries to perfect quality control—manufacturers realized that even tiny variations in bolt dimensions could cause machinery to fail, leading to some of the earliest standardization efforts in manufacturing history.
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