different between unbooted vs unbolted

English

un- +? booted

unbooted (not comparable)

unbolted

unbolted (not comparable)

Not fastened with a bolt.
- 1779, Samuel Johnson, Prefaces Biographical and Critical to the Works of the English Poets, London: C. Bathurst et al., Volume 2, “Milton,” p. 46,^[1]
  […] it seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may afterwards be censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief.
Not sifted.
(figuratively, obsolete) Coarse, uncultured, vulgar.
- c. 1605,, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act II, Scene 2,^[2]
  My lord, if you’ll give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar and daub the walls of a jakes with him.

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