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English Dictionary: bolting	by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bolt \Bolt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bolted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bolting}.] 1. To shoot; to discharge or drive forth.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bolt \Bolt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bolted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bolting}.] [OE. bolten, boulten, OF. buleter, F. bluter, fr. Ll. buletare, buratare, cf. F. bure coarse woolen stuff; fr. L. burrus red. See {Borrel}, and cf. {Bultel}.] 1. To sift or separate the coarser from the finer particles of, as bran from flour, by means of a bolter; to separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means. He now had bolted all the flour. --Spenser. Ill schooled in bolted language. --Shak. 2. To separate, as if by sifting or bolting; -- with out. Time and nature will bolt out the truth of things. --L'Estrange. 3. (Law) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law. --Jacob. {To bolt to the bran}, to examine thoroughly, so as to separate or discover everything important. --Chaucer. This bolts the matter fairly to the bran. --Harte. The report of the committee was examined and sifted and bolted to the bran. --Burke.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bolting \Bolt"ing\, n. A darting away; a starting off or aside.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bolting \Bolt"ing\, n. 1. A sifting, as of flour or meal. 2. (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. --McElrath. {Bolting hutch}, a bin or tub for the bolted flour or meal; (fig.) a receptacle.