boulting

To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.

“Bolt the vice to the bench.”

To secure a door by locking or barring it.

“Bolt the door.”

To flee, to depart, to accelerate suddenly.

“Seeing the snake, the horse bolted.”

To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted).

“to bolt a rabbit”

To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.

To escape.

Of a plant, to grow quickly; to go to seed.

“Lettuce and spinach will bolt as the weather warms up.”

To swallow food without chewing it.

To drink one's drink very quickly; to down a drink.

“Come on, everyone, bolt your drinks; I want to go to the next pub!”

To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.

To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.

To sift, especially through a cloth.

To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour.

“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.

A sifting, as of flour or meal.

A private arguing of cases for practice by students, as in the Inns of Court.