† boultel Obs.
Also 5–6 bultell(e.
[a. OF. *buletel, earlier buretel (now bluteau) meal-sieve; f. buleter, bureter (now bluter) to bolt v.1]
A kind of cloth specially prepared for sifting; a sieve (= bolter1 2); hence degree of fineness as determined by the fineness of the sieve.
| 1266 Act 51 Hen. III (Assisa Panis), Panis de coquet de eodem blado et eodem bultello, ponderabit, etc. [transl. 1618, Bread Cocket of a farthing of the same Corne and bultell, shall weigh, etc.] |
| c 1460 J. Russell Bk. Nurture 164 in Babees Bk. (1868) 128 Let hit renne in iiij. or vj. bagges; gete þem, if þow may, of bultelle clothe. 1477 Lanc. Wills (1884) 3 Half a pece bultell price iijs., j Dosen bultell price xvjd. a 1502 Arnold Chron. (1811) 206 A balle bultell conteyneth xxxvi. half pecis. a 1610 in Gutch Coll. Cur. II. 12 They bake two loaves for one penny..good paste, and boutell, and lawfull size. 1638 Penkethman Artach. G iv b, For his Boult ell od. 2q. 1660 Act 12 Chas. II, iv. Sched., Boultel Rains the piece viii.s. |