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Definitions of Bolter:
  • name:  A surname (very rare: popularity rank in the U.S.: #29286)
  • 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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