bolting cloth
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of bolting cloth
Middle English word dating back to 1275–1325
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When all are combined put twice through bolting cloth.
From The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture by Helen Follett Stevans
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 Helen Follett Stevans
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 Harry Snyder
They used the nettle to make strong cloths; looms set up in each house in the village furnished drugget, bolting cloth, serge and ordinary cloth.
From The Makers of Canada: Bishop Laval by Adrien Leblond de Brumath
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 William Beebe
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