Bolting \Bolt"ing\, n. 1. A sifting, as of flour or meal. 2. (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.