Definitions from Wiktionary (Bolter)

▸ noun:  A person or thing that bolts, or runs suddenly.
▸ noun:  (botany, horticulture) A plant that grows larger and more rapidly than usual.
▸ noun:  (flour milling) A machine or mechanism that automatically sifts milled flour.
▸ noun:  A person who sifts flour or meal.
▸ noun:  (petroleum refining) A filter mechanism.
▸ noun:  (Australia, sports) An obscure athlete who wins an upset victory.
▸ noun:  (Australia, horseracing) A horse that wins at long odds.
▸ noun:  (New Zealand, sports) In team sports, a relatively little-known or inexperienced player who inspires the team to greater success.
▸ noun:  (US, politics) A member of a political party who does not support the party's nominee.
▸ noun:  (military, aviation) A missed landing on an aircraft carrier; an aircraft that has made a missed landing.
▸ noun:  A kind of fishing line; a boulter.
▸ verb:  (dialect) To smear or become smeared with a grimy substance.
▸ verb:  To sift or filter through a sieve or bolter.
▸ verb:  To fish using a bolter.
▸ verb:  To pound rapidly.
▸ verb:  (of a whale) To swim or turn sideways while eating.
▸ verb:  (military, aviation) To miss a landing on an aircraft carrier by failing to catch the arresting gear wires with the aircraft's tailhook.
▸ noun:  A surname originating as an occupation.





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