Bolt \Bolt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bolted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bolting}.] 1. To shoot; to discharge or drive forth.
2. To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
I hate when Vice can bolt her arguments. --Milton.
3. To swallow without chewing; as, to bolt food; often used with down.
4. (U. S. Politics) To refuse to support, as a nomination made by a party to which one has belonged or by a caucus in which one has taken part.
5. (Sporting) To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge, as conies, rabbits, etc.
6. To fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as a door, a timber, fetters; to shackle; to restrain.
Let tenfold iron bolt my door. --Langhorn.
Which shackles accidents and bolts up change. --Shak.
Bolt \Bolt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bolted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bolting}.] [OE. bolten, boulten, OF. buleter, F. bluter, fr. Ll. buletare, buratare, cf. F. bure coarse woolen stuff; fr. L. burrus red. See {Borrel}, and cf. {Bultel}.] 1. To sift or separate the coarser from the finer particles of, as bran from flour, by means of a bolter; to separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
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.
Bolting \Bolt"ing\, n. A darting away; a starting off or aside.
Bolting \Bolt"ing\, n. 1. A sifting, as of flour or meal.
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.
But religious parties started bolting when he asked Labor to join the government, fearing Likud would break promises to them to accommodate Labor.
Prison authorities said Spain was seen bolting from the maximum-security unit with Jackson and helped plot the unsuccessful escape attempt.
Do not even try to put it together unless you are reasonably calm about screwing, bolting and following written instructions.
And imagine not just bolting on the spare but removing all four tires from their rims and putting on new ones."
Last year saw just three fatalities at British Coal, the lowest number on record. Nevertheless the inquiry into the Bilsthorpe accident will concentrate on roof bolting.