Bolter

/ˈbɒltə/ · noun

Meaning

A person or thing that bolts, or runs suddenly..

Definitions by Sense

1. A person or thing that bolts, or runs suddenly.
2. (botany, horticulture) A plant that grows larger and more rapidly than usual.
3. (flour milling) A machine or mechanism that automatically sifts milled flour.
4. A person who sifts flour or meal.
5. (petroleum refining) A filter mechanism.
6. (Australia, sports) An obscure athlete who wins an upset victory.
7. (Australia, horseracing) A horse that wins at long odds.
8. (New Zealand, sports) In team sports, a relatively little-known or inexperienced player who inspires the team to greater success.

Example Sentences

1992 June, Bill Tarrant, Gun Dogs: Problems with a Hunting Pattern, Field & Stream, page 104, Bolting can be one of the worst problems in dogdom to solve. We′ve all seen a bolter — or rather, we haven't seen him. We released him to hunt, and he was gone for the day, the week, the month. I′ve known of bolters to be gone for years.

Evidence is accumulating that bolters are plants which have changed their long-day habit to that of short-day.

The bolter was basically a sheet or roll of wire mesh or cloth (most often canvas or linen, but sometimes silk or another fabric). The flour produced by the mill was fed through or over the device, which was shaken by a mechanism (several were possible) taking power from the drive train leading from the water wheel to the millstones.

This first bolter contains a screen of eight meshes to the inch and separates the hard particles, dirt or scale.

Last year he was eliminated by the bolter Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and this time he was beaten by the shining star, Fernando Verdasco.

The bolters from the Republican convention say, in their manifesto: "Discontent and distress prevail to an extent never before known in the history of the country."

Methinks I see them with their boltered hair, Staring and grinning in thy gentle face, And in their ruthless hands their daggers drawn,

Now I see 'tis true, For the blood-boltered Banquo smiles upon me, And points at them for his.

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• bolters
• boltering
• boltered

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