sluice one's bolt

English

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, slang, obsolete) To drink alcohol.
   • 1845, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of London:

     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.

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary