bolting cloth

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bolting cloth - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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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