This gentleman was so hopelessly involved that he contemplated a bolt to America -- or anywhere.
Compton Reade.
3. (U. S. Politics) A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.
Bolt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bolted; p. pr. & vb. n. Bolting.] [OE. bolten, boulten, OF. buleter, F. bluter, fr. Ll. buletare, buratare, cf. F. bure coarse woolen stuff; fr. L. burrus red. See Borrel, and cf. Bultel.]
1. To sift or separate the coarser from the finer particles of, as bran from flour, by means of a bolter; to separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
He now had bolted all the flour.
Spenser.
Ill schooled in bolted language.
Shak.