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CIDE DICTIONARY

bolting, n.

A darting away; a starting off or aside. [1913 Webster]

bolting, n.

A sifting, as of flour or meal. [1913 Webster]
A private arguing of cases for practice by students, as in the Inns of Court. [1913 Webster]

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.