He now had bolted all the flour. --Spenser.
Ill schooled in bolted language. --Shak.
2. To separate, as if by sifting or bolting; -- with out.
Time and nature will bolt out the truth of things.
--L'Estrange.
3. (Law) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as
cases at law. --Jacob.
{To bolt to the bran}, to examine thoroughly, so as to
separate or discover everything important. --Chaucer.
This bolts the matter fairly to the bran. --Harte.
The report of the committee was examined and sifted
and bolted to the bran. --Burke.
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.