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Bolting
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2
Part of speech: noun (n.)
A darting away; a starting off or aside.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. A sifting, as of flour or meal.
2. 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.