She measured two handfuls of coarse flour and shook it through a boulter of cloth. From Wordnik.com. [Son of a Witch]
This means literally: 'Riven as a blacksmith rives a sieve or boulter.'. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series] Reference
Nutmegs, Mace, Cinnamon, Cloves and Ginger bruised, and put it into a boulter bag, and hang it in the barrel. From Wordnik.com. [The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened] Reference
Then let it run through a boulter, and put a little Orange flower-water to it, and sliced bread; and so serve it up cold. From Wordnik.com. [The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened] Reference
Mustard, and hang it in a boulter bag containing loosly some Ginger, Cloves and Cinamon bruised, and a little Limon-peel and Elder-flowers, with a. From Wordnik.com. [The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened] Reference
Bruise and mash them with your hands to press out all their juyce, which strain through a boulter cloth, into a deep narrow Woodden tub, and cover it close with clothes. From Wordnik.com. [The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened] Reference
Then put into it a thin bag of boulter-cloth containing forty pound weight of the best blew Raisins of the Sun, well picked and washed and wiped dry; and let the bag be so large, that the. From Wordnik.com. [The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened] Reference
When you find that the height of the working is past, and that it begins to go less, tun it into a barrel, letting it run again through a boulter, to keep out all the gross feculent substance. From Wordnik.com. [The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened] Reference
Pour into the Wine the juyce that comes out from the Cherries; but put all the solid substance of them into a long bag of boulter-cloth, and hang it in the Wine at the bung, so that it lie not in the bottom, but only reach to touch it, and therefore nail it down at the mouth of the bung. From Wordnik.com. [The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened] Reference
Whilst it is yet luke-warm, put Ale-yest to it, (no more then is necessary) to make it work, and then tun it into a Rundlet of a fit Size, that hath been seasoned with Sack; and hang in it a boulter bag containing half a pound of white Ginger cleansed and sliced, three ounces of Cloves and as much of. From Wordnik.com. [The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened] Reference
Fine flower of - wheat prejs'd through a (le-ve or boulter; Alfo niiU - dufl that flyeth about the null. From Wordnik.com. [Archaeologia Britannica, giving some account additional to what has been hitherto publish'd, of the languages, histories and customs of the original inhabitants of Great Britain: : from collections and observations in travels through Wales, Cornwal, Bas-Bretagne, Ireland and Scotland.] Reference
Through coarsest boulter others 'gifts. From Wordnik.com. [Hudibras] Reference
The boulter, the grand Cyclops 'cousin, those. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1] Reference
The boulter, the grand Cyclops’ cousin, those. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
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