a term of art used in our inns of court, whereby is intended a private arguing of cases. The manner of it at Gray's inn is thus: An ancient and two barristers sit as judges; three students bring each a case, out of which the judges choose one to be argued; which done, the students first argue it, and after them the barristers. It is inferior to meeting; and may be derived from the Saxon word bolt, a house, because done privately in the house for instruction. In Lincoln's inn, Mondays and Wednesdays are the bolting days in vacation time; and Tuesdays and Thursdays the moot days.

or Boulting, the act of separating the flour from the bran, by means of a sieve or bolter.

BOLTING-CLOTH, or Boulting-cloth, sometimes also called buliting-cloth, denotes a linen or hair cloth for sifting meal or flour.

BOLTING MILL, a versatile engine for sifting with more ease and expedition. The cloth round this is called the bolter.

or Boulting, among sportsmen, signifies rousing or dislodging a coney from its resting place. The say, to bolt a coney, start a hare, rouse a buck, &c.