Look up: bolting

1. Bolting
   The premature and usually unwelcome flowering of a vegetable or leafy herb, often as a result of drought, starvation or high temperatures.
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2. Bolting
   Threaded fasteners used to assemble pressure containing parts (studs, bolts, nuts, cap screws).
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3. 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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4. bolting
   desertion of party, making a bolt, i.e. a refusal to support a candidate proposed by one`s political party. Category: Politics
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5. Bolting
   Bolt'ing noun A darting away; a starting off or aside.
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6. 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 d...
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7. 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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8. Bolting
   [horticulture] 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 is induced by plant hormones of the gibberel...
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9. BOLTING
   Sifting of ground grain to remove the bran and coarse particles.
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10. Bolting
    Eating very rapidly , gulping feed without proper chewing; running away with rider
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11. Bolting
    'Running to seed' or flowering before you want. In many cases this will ruin the vegetable you are trying to grow.
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12. Bolting
    [horse] Bolting when referring to equidae, generally refers to two different equine behaviors, both undesirable: the practice of running away without control, and the practice of eating food at a dangerously fast rate. However, there are other meanings as well. For example, in Australia a bo...
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