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Bolting

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A bundle or bolt of straw: in Gloucestershire, 24 pounds. Also called bolt.
  • noun. The act of sifting.
  • noun. In the English inns of court, a private arguing of cases for practice.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A darting away; a starting off or aside.
  • noun. A sifting, as of flour or meal.
  • noun. A private arguing of cases for practice by students, as in the Inns of Court.
  • noun. wire, hair, silk, or other sieve cloth of different degrees of fineness; -- used by millers for sifting flour.
  • noun. a receptacle.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. Present participle of bolt.
  • noun. A sifting, as of flour or meal.
  • noun. A private arguing of cases for practice by students, as in the Inns of Court.
  • Word Usage
    ""The hope is that if this agreement is done really, really well, that it will then have bolt-on possibilities as what I call "bolting on additional countries" at a later time with a relatively short negotiation being needed because of the quality of the agreement that is presented to them," he said."
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