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.
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