Bolter

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A sieve; an instrument or machine for separating bran from flour, or the coarser part of meal from the finer.
  • To clot.
  • noun. A machine for sawing logs into a size suitable for cutting into small strips. The pieces cut by a bolter are called bolts, and these bolts are sawed into laths, pickets, etc., in a gang-saw.
  • noun. In archery, an archer who, after drawing the bow, looses too soon.
  • noun. A kind of fishing-line.
  • noun. One who bolts, in any sense of the verb.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One who sifts flour or meal.
  • noun. An instrument or machine for separating bran from flour, or the coarser part of meal from the finer; a sieve.
  • noun. A kind of fishing line. See boulter.
  • noun. One who bolts; esp.: (a) A horse which starts suddenly aside. (b) A man who breaks away from his party.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A person or thing that bolts.
  • noun. A plant that grows larger and more rapidly than usual.
  • noun. A machine or mechanism that automatically sifts milled flour.
  • noun. A filter mechanism.
  • noun. An obscure athlete who wins an upset victory.
  • noun. A horse that wins at long odds.
  • noun. In team sports, a relatively little-known or inexperienced player who inspires the team to greater success.
  • noun. A member of a political party who does not support the party's nominee.
  • noun. A missed landing on an aircraft carrier; an aircraft that has made a missed landing.
  • noun. A kind of fishing line; a boulter.
  • Word Usage
    "As the wheels touched steel he shoved the throttles forward; if his tail-hook missed the arresting wire, he needed full power for a "bolter" -- a touch-and-go that would send him off the forward deck and around for a second pass."
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    boulter  colter  coulter  molter  poulter  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    sieve  
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    boulter