bolting
noun C2- An act of bolting or running away.
- A sifting, as of flour or meal.
- A private arguing of cases for practice by students, as in the Inns of Court.
Plural boltings
From the library
In order that he might wake early he did not close the shutters, but contented himself with bolting the door and placing on the table an unclasped and long-pointed knife, whose temper he well knew, and which was never absent from him.
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