'Bolting cloth' definitions:

Definition of 'Bolting cloth'

From: GCIDE
  • Bolting \Bolt"ing\, n.
  • 1. A sifting, as of flour or meal. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Law) A private arguing of cases for practice by students, as in the Inns of Court. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]