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sluicing one's bolt

sluicing one's bolt is the present participle and gerund of sluice one's bolt.

Meaning of sluice one's bolt

Verb

sluice one's bolt (third-person singular simple present sluices one's bolt, present participle sluicing one's bolt, simple past and past participle sluiced one's bolt)

  1. (UK, obsolete, slang) To drink alcohol.
    • When his heart has been the least thing warmed with sluicing his bolt and cocking his broseley, he has told us strange stories of foreign countries, so that even old Zingary has turned up the whites of his eyes.1845, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of London

Questions about sluicing one's bolt

What is sluicing one's bolt the present participle and gerund of?
Sluicing one's bolt is the present participle and gerund of sluice one's bolt.

Words near sluicing one's bolt in the dictionary

  1. sluices one's bolt
  2. sluices out
  3. sluiceway
  4. sluiceways
  5. sluicing
  6. sluicing one's bolt
  7. sluicing out
  8. sluicingly
  9. sluicings
  10. sluicy
  11. sluing

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