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.