Date: 2006-04-07 11:05 pm (UTC)
My OED has "to let off or discharge like a bolt" (a crossbow bolt), and from this, a 1794 quote:
Tales that bold like hedge-hog-quills the hair upright

I may be able to get a better extract from the electronic version on Monday, if I remember.
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