BOLTING

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 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.

A sifting, as of flour or meal.

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