Definition of "bolter" in English

noun

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

   • 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.

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.

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

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

11. A kind of fishing line; a boulter.

12. (climbing) Someone who equips a sport route by putting bolts in the rock.

verb

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

2. To sift or filter through a sieve or bolter.

3. To fish using a bolter.

4. To pound rapidly.

5. (of a whale) To swim or turn sideways while eating.

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