bolting
verb
Definitions
To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.
Example: Bolt the vice to the bench.
To secure a door by locking or barring it.
Example: Bolt the door.
To flee, to depart, to accelerate suddenly.
Example: Seeing the snake, the horse bolted.
To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted).
Example: to bolt a rabbit
verb
Definitions
To sift, especially through a cloth.
To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour.
Example: Graham flour is unbolted flour.
To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
noun
Definitions
A sifting, as of flour or meal.
A private arguing of cases for practice by students, as in the Inns of Court.