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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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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Bolting \Bolt"ing\, n.
   A darting away; a starting off or aside.
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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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