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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