What is "boulters"

Usage examples of "boulters".

A new estimate and verification of the food supply takes place, domiciliary searches, seizures of special stores regarded as too ample,[83] limited rations for each consumer, a common and obligatory mess table for all prisoners, brown, égalité bread, mostly of bran, for every mouth that can chew, prohibition of the making of any other kind, confiscation of boulters and sieves,[84] the "individual," personal responsibility of every administrator who allows the people he directs to resist or escape providing the demanded supplies, the sequestration of his property, imprisonment, fines, the pillory and the guillotine to hurry up requisitions, or stop free trading, - every terrifying method is driven to the utmost against the farmers and cultivators of the soil.

I offered to take it for him for a quarter but the Boulters are so mean.

There's a contrary streak in all the Boulters and it's strongly developed in him.

But above all, those judicious collectors of bright parts, and flowers, and observandas, are to be nicely dwelt on, by some called the sieves and boulters of learning, though it is left undetermined, whether they dealt in pearls or meal, and consequently, whether we are more to value that which passed through, or what stayed behind.