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/bˈoʊltɪŋ/ Listen

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

... their leader had vanished; they were disorganized, they were running away; sobered and stupefied, they knew the game was up. They were quite willing all the same to shoot the bourgeois there at the wall, before bolting for covert, each to hide in his ...

— The Aspirations of Jean Servien • Anatole France

... demand. These men, we said, may become your allies, if you do not put them upon their mettle by your rudeness and impatience. If they join you, they will be faster and more useful friends than men who compensate for every defect by pledge-bolting at command. ...

— Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry • Thomas Davis

... could hear their cries, while a persistent vision haunted him of a man called Mops, alive and well, clinging to a life buoy miles astern in that lonely ocean. He glanced at Captain Cullen, and experienced a feeling of nausea, for the man was eating his food with relish, almost bolting it. ...

— Brown Wolf and Other Jack London Stories - Chosen and Edited By Franklin K. Mathiews • Jack London

... like that of a wounded lion, he seized his daughter and dragged her back with him down the passage into the solar where a fire burned and lights had been lit ready for their retiring, flinging to and bolting ...

— The Brethren • H. Rider Haggard

... that night Harrigan came into the room where Sam sat with the assembled girls, bolting the door behind him. He was a short, strongly built man with blue eyes and red hair. He walked about the room in silence, followed by Frank. Suddenly he stopped and, picking up one of the typewriting machines rented by Sam for the letter writing, raised it above his head ...

— Windy McPherson's Son • Sherwood Anderson

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