bolter🔊

A person or thing that bolts, or runs suddenly.

(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.

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

(horseracing) A horse that wins at long odds.

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

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

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

A kind of fishing line; a boulter.

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

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.

(aviation) To miss a landing on an aircraft carrier by failing to catch the arresting gear wires with the aircraft's tailhook.