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Boulting

To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.

📖 Definitions of "Boulting"

verb
  1. 1

    To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.

    "Bolt the vice to the bench."

  2. 2

    To secure a door by locking or barring it.

    "Bolt the door."

  3. 3

    To flee, to depart, to accelerate suddenly.

    "Seeing the snake, the horse bolted."

  4. 4

    To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted).

    "to bolt a rabbit"

verb
  1. 1

    To sift, especially through a cloth.

  2. 2

    To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour.

    "Graham flour is unbolted flour."

  3. 3

    To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.

  4. 4

    To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.

noun
  1. 1

    A sifting, as of flour or meal.

  2. 2

    A private arguing of cases for practice by students, as in the Inns of Court.

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