bolting cloth
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of bolting cloth
Middle English word dating back to 1275–1325
Example Sentences
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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
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
They should be made out of proper "bolting" cloth, a beautiful material made for flour-millers.
From On Laboratory Arts by Threlfall, Richard
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 Leblond de Brumath, Adrien
After the grain has been thus reduced to a powder, it is passed through bolting cloth, which acts as a very fine sieve and separates from it any foreign material that may remain.
From Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 1: Essentials of Cookery; Cereals; Bread; Hot Breads by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
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