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- noun Corrupted form
bolt .
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Examples
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May I be thrown amidst all the devils of hell, even as a great bowl cast athwart at a set of ninepins, or cannon-ball shot among a battalion of foot, in case so many times I do not boult my future wife the first night of our marriage!
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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May I be thrown amidst all the devils of hell, even as a great bowl cast athwart at a set of ninepins, or cannon-ball shot among a battalion of foot, in case so many times I do not boult my future wife the first night of our marriage!
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Justice after him, thinking verily that by the meane of the slippers he might boult out the matter.
The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius
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_Orpine_ and _Brimstone_ and boult them out with the Smother: But pray use this last seldom, unless you would destroy your Warren.
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Pursenets on their Holes, and put in a _Ferret_ close muzzled, and she will bolt them out (being a natural Enemy to them) into the Nets: Or blow on the suddain the Drone of a Bag-Pipe into the Burrows, and they will boult out: Or for want of either of these two, take powder of
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So it was ordered, that after the pleadings of both sides was ended, they thought best to try and boult out the verity by witnesses, all presumptions and likelihood set apart, and to call in the servant, who onely was reported to know all the matter: by and by the servant came in, who nothing abashed, at the feare of so great a judgment, or at the presence of the
The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius
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The context shows that the poet thinks his sudden side-issue not trivial or tedious, but quite the contrary, he quits it only because he cannot "boult it to the bren", i.e., sift it down, analyze it satisfactorily.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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It was exhilarating to get a lesson in pronunciation from a gentleman who said boult for bolt, called St. John Sin 'Jun, and did not know how to pronounce the beautiful name of his own college at Oxford.
Ponkapog Papers. 1904
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It was exhilarating to get a lesson in pronunciation from a gentleman who said _boult_ for bolt, called St. John _Sin 'Jun_, and did not know how to pronounce the beautiful name of his own college at Oxford.
Ponkapog Papers Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1871
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What a pity it is that we ain't in a climate where one can fasten the windows, and boult the shutters!
RichardB43 commented on the word boult
There is a second definition of "boult" needed, as a verb, meaning to sift.
The example "“The context shows that the poet thinks his sudden side-issue not trivial or tedious, but quite the contrary, he quits it only because he cannot "boult it to the bren", i.e., sift it down, analyze it satisfactorily.” The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux"
illustrates this other meaning. See "boulting". It is term used in milling and baking, relating to "sift", as this example clearly shows.
September 1, 2011