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noun

Bolting n. A darting away; a starting off or aside.

Bolting n.

A sifting, as of flour or meal.

(Law) A private arguing of cases for practice by students, as in the Inns of Court. (Obs.)

Bolting cloth, wire, hair, silk, or other sieve cloth of different degrees of fineness; used by millers for sifting flour.

Bolting hutch, a bin or tub for the bolted flour or meal; (fig.) a receptacle.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bolting" Quotes from Famous Books

... "Hungry!" he repeated, bolting a mouthful and knocking his hat over his eyes with a slap on its dusty crown. "Egad, Mr. Vibart! so would you be—so would any man be who has lived on anything he could beg, borrow, or steal, with an occasional meal of turnips—in the digging of which I ...

— The Broad Highway • Jeffery Farnol

... gladly accepted the kind padre's offer, and Candela was forthwith ordered to get ready. He did not require many minutes, his preparations consisting in bolting a mess of porridge, to enable him the better to undergo the fatigue of the journey. He was to proceed on foot with the natives who conducted ...

— The Young Llanero - A Story of War and Wild Life in Venezuela • W.H.G. Kingston

... (which was an antique), up the hill to the castle, through the market-place, down the High Street to the Old Bridge. He had explored the brain of the landlord, who could not grapple with a time-table, and who spent most of the time during closed hours in patiently bolting the front door which G.J. was continually opening. He had talked to the old customer who, whenever the house was open, sat at a table in the garden over a mug of cider. He had played through all the musical comedies, dance albums and pianoforte albums that littered the piano. He had ...

— The Pretty Lady • Arnold E. Bennett

... in Piccadilly, and he asked me to come back to dinner at the flat. And, like a fool, instead of bolting and putting myself under police protection, ...

— My Man Jeeves • P. G. Wodehouse

... man over, and decided there was truth in the latter part of his story. "Take this spanner and wade across to the reef yonder," he said. "You can begin by giving aid to those men who are bolting the beams down." ...

— Thurston of Orchard Valley • Harold Bindloss

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