verb/bly.te/
to sift, to sieve, especially the flour from the bran
Related: blutage, bluteau, blutoir
Inherited from Middle French buleter, beluter, from Middle High German biuteln, biūtel, from Old High German butil (“pouch, bag”), from Proto-Germanic *buzdô (“beetle, grub, swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰūs- (“to move quickly”). Cognate with Dutch buidel; compare also Galician barutar and Italian burattare.