bolt
/boʊlt/ verb B2- To sift, especially through a cloth.
- To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour. · Graham flour is unbolted flour; in contrast, some other flours have been bolted.
- To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
- To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
He/she/it bolts · Past bolted · Past participle bolted · -ing form bolting
Verb forms
- Base form
- bolt
- He/she/it
- bolts
- Past
- bolted
- Past participle
- bolted
- -ing form
- bolting
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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A SEAGULL having bolted down too large a fish, burst its deep gullet-bag and lay down on the shore to die.
AN ASS, being driven along a high road, suddenly started off and bolted to the brink of a deep precipice.
Noirtier then took the trouble to close and bolt the antechamber door, then that of the bedchamber, and then extended his hand to Villefort, who had followed all his motions with surprise which he could not conceal.
“It is certainly bolted as well as locked.
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