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 Paris), 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 0d. 2q.
1660. Act 12 Chas. II., iv. Sched., Boultel Rains the piece viii.s.
