Crossword clues for bolting
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bolt \Bolt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bolted; p. pr. & vb. n. Bolting.]
To shoot; to discharge or drive forth.
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To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
I hate when Vice can bolt her arguments.
--Milton. To swallow without chewing; as, to bolt food; often used with down.
(U. S. Politics) To refuse to support, as a nomination made by a party to which one has belonged or by a caucus in which one has taken part.
(Sporting) To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge, as conies, rabbits, etc.
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To fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as a door, a timber, fetters; to shackle; to restrain.
Let tenfold iron bolt my door.
--Langhorn.Which shackles accidents and bolts up change.
--Shak.
Bolting \Bolt"ing\, n. A darting away; a starting off or aside.
Bolting \Bolt"ing\, n.
A sifting, as of flour or meal.
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(Law) A private arguing of cases for practice by students, as in the Inns of Court. [Obs.]
Bolting cloth, wire, hair, silk, or other sieve cloth of different degrees of fineness; -- used by millers for sifting flour.
--McElrath.Bolting hutch, a bin or tub for the bolted flour or meal; (fig.) a receptacle.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A sifting, as of flour or meal. 2 (context legal English) A private argue of cases for practice by students, as in the Inns of Court. vb. (present participle of bolt English)
Wikipedia
Bolting is the premature production of a flowering stem (or stems) on agricultural and horticultural crops before the crop is harvested, in a natural attempt to produce seeds and hence reproduce. These flowering stems are usually vigorous extensions of existing leaf-bearing stems, and in order to produce them, a plant diverts resources away from producing the edible parts such as leaves or roots, resulting in a poor quality harvest from the grower's point of view. Plants that have produced flowering stems in this way are said to have bolted. Crops inclined to bolt include lettuce, basil, beetroot, brassicas, spinach, celery and onion.
Bolting is induced by plant hormones of the gibberellin family, and can occur as a result of several factors, including changes in day length, the prevalence of low temperatures at particular stages in a plant's growth cycle, and the existence of stresses such as insufficient water or minerals. These factors may interact in a complex way. Day length may affect the propensity to bolt in that some plants are "long day plants", some are "short day plants" and some are "day neutral", so for example when a long day plant, such as spinach, experiences increasingly long days that reach a particular length, it will be inclined to bolt. Low temperatures can affect the propensity of some plants to bolt if they are experienced for sufficient periods at particular points in the life cycle of the plant; once these conditions have been met, plants that require such a trigger will subsequently bolt regardless of subsequent temperatures. Plants under stress may respond by bolting so that they can produce seeds before they die.
Plant breeders have introduced cultivars of bolt-prone crops that are less prone to the condition.
Bolting, when referring to equidae, generally refers to two equine behaviors, both undesirable:
- Running away without control.
- Eating food at a dangerously fast rate.
However, there are other meanings as well. For example, in Australia a bolter is a racehorse that wins at long betting odds.
Bolting may refer to:
- Bolting (horse), which can describe either of two different types of behaviour in horses
- Bolting (horticulture), a growth behaviour in plants
Usage examples of "bolting".
Bolting, 139 Rita Clay Estrada she headed into the bedroom, then dived and slid across the wood floor until she was under the bed.
Detective Bruno Sancino slipped the pizza delivery boy a double sawbuck, told him to keep the change and then gave the seventh floor hallway a quick look-see before closing the door and bolting it shut.
His ancestors were bred for bolting foxes and wildcats among the rocky headlands of the subarctic islands.
She had sat at the top of a low h l, holding Bounder still to keep him from bolting.
She sniffed it, drank a little more, then surprised him by bolting the balance like someone quaffing a shot of whiskey.
Trojans scattered in panic, bolting left and right while the fighting son of Atreus led Odysseus through the onslaught, bracing him with an arm till a reinsman drove his team and car up close.
As it is, we are merely bolting our lives--gulping down undigested experiences as fast as we can stuff them in--because awareness of our own existence is so superficial and so narrow that nothing seems to us more boring than simple being.
Even Rolin, a known whipster, had all he could do to keep his blacks from bolting.
Bolting back down the walk, he mounted his snorting Andalusian, and rode off into the smoke-filled darkness.
The sound shocked the air as a nighthorse broke through the thin screen of bystanders, not bolting uncontrolled into the dusk, but treading catfooted, shaking his mane and throwing off such a cold feeling of ill that senior riders crowded each other to get out of its path.
As usual, the old ditz came at a run, bolting out the door of the student center, head down against the rain.
Finally he stepped in, determined to escape Eberhard Fearing, bolting himself into the stainless-steel compartment and noting in the mirror how unlike himself he looked, neat enough in sport coat and tie but unusually pale and somehow tired, as though this manufactured air were threatening his very flesh, drawing out needed chemicals and replacing them with evil solvents made in New Jersey.
Sandcastle, loose and excited, had found his way into one of the paths between the larger paddocks and from his bolting speed must have taken the rails to be those of a racecourse.
Rage from bolting down into the ruins or attacking the frater as well, he noticed too late when the wind turned and the hounds stilled abruptly, unnaturally.
He caught a glimpse of a black figure bolting down the street, straight at the valve pit, and then there was a second purple explosion, followed by the thump of a thermite grenade erupting down in the pit, the explosion flaring into a brilliant white bolus of sparks and flame.