bolting cloth
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of bolting cloth
Middle English word dating back to 1275–1325
Example Sentences
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They should be made out of proper "bolting" cloth, a beautiful material made for flour-millers.
From On Laboratory Arts by Threlfall, Richard
To test a flour, ten grams are placed in a sieve containing a No. 10 bolting cloth; with a camel's-hair brush and proper manipulation, the flour is sieved, and that which passes through is weighed.
From Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value by Snyder, Harry
By exhaustive inquiry among the feminine portion of the passengers I obtained possession of a small square of a very fine-meshed fabric something like bolting cloth.
From Jungle Peace by Beebe, William
From this break the material passes to a reel covered with bolting cloth varying in fineness from No. 10 at the head to No. 00 at the tail.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881 by Various
First put your rice powder through a fine sieve, and then through bolting cloth.
From The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture by Stevans, Helen Follett
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