What does sluice one's bolt mean?

sluice one's bolt

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.61 in modern English

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British usage; Obsolete; Slang

"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."

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