Bolting

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bolt \Bolt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bolted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Bolting}.]
     1. To shoot; to discharge or drive forth.
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     2. To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.


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              I hate when Vice can bolt her arguments. --Milton.
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     3. To swallow without chewing; as, to bolt food; often used
        with down.
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     4. (U. S. Politics) To refuse to support, as a nomination
        made by a party to which one has belonged or by a caucus
        in which one has taken part.
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     5. (Sporting) To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge,
        as conies, rabbits, etc.
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     6. To fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as
        a door, a timber, fetters; to shackle; to restrain.
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              Let tenfold iron bolt my door.        --Langhorn.
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              Which shackles accidents and bolts up change.
                                                    --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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}.]
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     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.
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              He now had bolted all the flour.      --Spenser.
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              Ill schooled in bolted language.      --Shak.
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     2. To separate, as if by sifting or bolting; -- with out.
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              Time and nature will bolt out the truth of things.
                                                    --L'Estrange.
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     3. (Law) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as
        cases at law. --Jacob.
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     {To bolt to the bran}, to examine thoroughly, so as to
        separate or discover everything important. --Chaucer.
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              This bolts the matter fairly to the bran. --Harte.
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              The report of the committee was examined and sifted
              and bolted to the bran.               --Burke.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bolting \Bolt"ing\, n.
     A darting away; a starting off or aside.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bolting \Bolt"ing\, n.
     1. A sifting, as of flour or meal.
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     2. (Law) A private arguing of cases for practice by students,
        as in the Inns of Court. [Obs.]
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     {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.
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