[f. BOLT v.1]
1. The act of sifting. Boltings: the bran or coarse meal separated by sifting; siftings.
a. 1300. W. de Biblesworth, in Wright, Voc., 155. Per bolenger (gloss. bultingge) est ceveré La flur.
1335. in Mem. Ripon (1885), II. 115. Unum magnum doleum pro bultynges.
1606. Shaks., Tr. & Cr., I. i. 18. Troy. Haue I not tarried? Pan. I the grinding; but you must tarry the bolting.
1638. Penkethman, Artach., A. b.
1877. Peacock, Lincolnsh. Gloss. Boltings, the coarse meal separated from the flour.
2. fig. Sifting of evidence, etc.; close scrutiny. Boulting out: getting at by sifting.
1563–87. Foxe, A. & M. (1596), 1286/1. The boulting out of the true signification of οὐσία.
1623. Sanderson, Serm. (1681), I. 88. Means for the boulting out of the truth.
1771. Burke, Corr. (1844), I. 256. Among those in opposition, there has been of late a good deal of boulting.
† b. The private arguing of law cases for practice. Obs.
1598. Stow, Surv., ix. (1603), 79. They frequent readings, meetings, boltinges and other learned exercises.
1670. Blount, Law Dict., Bolting, at Greys-Inn. The manner is thus; An Ancient, and two Barrasters sit as Judges, three Students bring each a Case, and the Judges chuse which of them shall be argued: which done, the Students first argue it, then the Barrasters.
3. Comb., as (in sense 1) bolting-cloth, house, -hutch, -machine, -mill, -pipe, -poke, -tub, -tun.
1452. Test. Ebor., III. 137. Ij *bultynge-clothes, iiijd. Ibid. (c. 1500), IV. 192. Xxix yerdes off bowtyng cloth xld.
1617. Markham, Caval., III. 38. Boult them through an ordinarie bolting cloath.
1885. R. R. Bowker, in Harper’s Mag., July, 256/1. The finest and most expensive silk fabric made is bolting-cloth, for the use of millers.
1532. Hervet, trans. Xenophon’s Househ. (1768), 40. The instrumentes that belonge … to the kechin, to the bathe, and to the *boultynge house.
1704. Lond. Gaz., No. 4003/4. Wash-house, Boulting-house, Bake-house.
1596. Shaks., 1 Hen. IV., II. iv. 495. That *Boulting-Hutch of Beastlinesse.
1641. Milton, Animadv., Wks. (1851), 205. Saving this passing fine sophisticall boulting hutch.
1807. Vancouver, Agric. Devon (1813), 122. It has a pair of stones of about four feet in diameter, and a *bolting machine.
1846. G. Wright, Cream Sci. Knowl., 49. The bolting-machine of a flour-mill…. The flour is sifted … through a cloth of a peculiar texture, called a bolting-cloth. Instead of the cloth, a cylinder formed of wire-gauze of different degrees of fineness is sometimes used.
1766. Chron., in Ann. Reg., 139/1. They took an aversion to all *bolting-mills, and accordingly destroyed 7 or 8.
1534. in Eng. Ch. Furniture (1866), 189. A *bultynge pipe coverid with a yarde of canvesse.
1588. Lanc. Wills (1857), III. 137. In the backe house and brewe house … a boltinge pype viijd.
1552. Huloet, Bultre, or *bultyng poke for fyne meale.
1530. Palsgr., 200/1. *Boultyng tubbe, husche a bluter.
1581–2. Inv., in Best, Farm. Bks. (1856), 172. In þe bowtinge house … one bowling tube.
1485. Inv., in Ripon Ch. Acts, 371. j *bultington.
