Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
bolter .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A long, stout fishing line to which many hooks are attached.
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- noun A long, stout
fishing line with manyhooks attached.
Etymologies
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Examples
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She measured two handfuls of coarse flour and shook it through a boulter of cloth.
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Make the paste as you do for red deer, course drest through a boulter, a peck and a pottle of this meal will serve for a side or half hanch of a buck.
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This means literally: 'Riven as a blacksmith rives a sieve or boulter.'
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III
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This means literally: 'Riven as a blacksmith rives a sieve or boulter.'
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Or you may tye it up in a loose thin linnen cloth, or boulter, as they do Capons _à la mode_, or Brawn, or the like.
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When you find that the height of the working is past, and that it begins to go less, tun it into a barrel, letting it run again through a boulter, to keep out all the gross feculent substance.
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Then let it run through a boulter, and put a little Orange flower-water to it, and sliced bread; and so serve it up cold.
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Whilst it is yet luke-warm, put Ale-yest to it, (no more then is necessary) to make it work, and then tun it into a Rundlet of a fit Size, that hath been seasoned with Sack; and hang in it a boulter bag containing half a pound of white Ginger cleansed and sliced, three ounces of Cloves and as much of
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Then put into it a thin bag of boulter-cloth containing forty pound weight of the best blew Raisins of the Sun, well picked and washed and wiped dry; and let the bag be so large, that the
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Bruise and mash them with your hands to press out all their juyce, which strain through a boulter cloth, into a deep narrow Woodden tub, and cover it close with clothes.
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