BOLTER

Etymology

Noun

bolter (plural bolters)

A person or thing that bolts, or runs suddenly.

(botany, horticulture) A plant that grows larger and more rapidly than usual.

(flour milling) A machine or mechanism that automatically sifts milled flour.

A person who sifts flour or meal.

(petroleum refining) A filter mechanism.

(Australia, sports) An obscure athlete who wins an upset victory.

(Australia, horseracing) A horse that wins at long odds.

(New Zealand, sports) In team sports, a relatively little-known or inexperienced player who inspires the team to greater success.

(US, politics) A member of a political party who does not support the party's nominee.

(military aviation) A missed landing on an aircraft carrier; an aircraft that has made a missed landing.

A kind of fishing line; a boulter.

Verb

bolter (third-person singular simple present bolters, present participle boltering, simple past and past participle boltered)

(dialect) To smear or become smeared with a grimy substance

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To sift or filter through a sieve or bolter.

To fish using a bolter.

To pound rapidly.

(of a whale) To swim or turn sideways while eating.

(military, aviation) To miss a landing on an aircraft carrier by approaching at the wrong angle, thereby missing the tailhook wires.

Usage notes

The meaning to smear or be smeared with a grimy substance was originally used primarily to refer to farm animals getting wet with sweat, rain, etc. and then "boltering" with mud, hair, etc. However, its use by Shakespeare (Macbeth) popularized the term as referring to getting covered in blood, and most modern uses refer to boltering with blood.

Anagrams

• Bortle, Tobler, reblot, rebolt, troble

Source: Wiktionary

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Bolt"er, n.

Definition: One who bolts; esp.: (a) A horse which starts suddenly aside. (b) A man who breaks away from his party.

Bolt"er, n.

1. One who sifts flour or meal.

2. An instrument or machine for separating bran from flour, or the coarser part of meal from the finer; a sieve.

Bolt"er, n.

Definition: A kind of fishing line. See Boulter.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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