Look up: Bolting

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   Bolting
   The premature and usually unwelcome flowering of a vegetable or leafy herb, often as a result of drought, starvation or high temperatures.
   Found on http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/htbg/glos
   
   
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   Bolting
   Threaded fasteners used to assemble pressure containing parts (studs, bolts, nuts, cap screws).
   Found on http://www.anson.co.uk/oilfield_glossary
   
   
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   Bolting
   Some plants flower or produce seed prematurely before they have put on sufficient growth and reached maturity. This is often caused by poor soil or lack of water
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   bolting
   desertion of party, making a bolt, i.e. a refusal to support a candidate proposed by one`s political party. Category: Politics
   Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition
   
   
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   Bolting
   Bolt'ing noun A darting away; a starting off or aside.
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/76
   
   
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   Bolting
   Bolt'ing noun 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. [ Obsolete] 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 ...
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   Bolting
   `Bolting` is the growth of an elongated stalk with flowers grown from within the main stem of a plant. This condition occurs in plants that are grown for their leaves, such as cabbage, lettuce, spinach, and other leafy greens. Bolting can also apply to some of the brassicas that are grown for their flowers (such as broccoli and cauliflower) that send up flowering stalks too early, producing heads that are smaller than desired because the plant ...
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   Bolting
   • (n.) A sifting, as of flour or meal. • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bolt • (n.) A private arguing of cases for practice by students, as in the Inns of Court. • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bolt • (n.) A darting away; a starting off or aside.
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