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noun (English)
1. (botany, horticulture) A plant that grows larger and more rapidly than usual.Examples: "Evidence is accumulating that bolters are plants which have changed their long-day habit to that of short-day."
2. (flour milling) A machine or mechanism that automatically sifts milled flour.Examples: "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."
3. (petroleum refining) A filter mechanism.Examples: "This first bolter contains a screen of eight meshes to the inch and separates the hard particles, dirt or scale."
4. (Australia, sports) An obscure athlete who wins an upset victory.Examples: "Last year he was eliminated by the bolter Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and this time he was beaten by the shining star, Fernando Verdasco."Australia
5. (Australia, horseracing) A horse that wins at long odds.Australia
6. (New Zealand, sports) In team sports, a relatively little-known or inexperienced player who inspires the team to greater success.New-Zealand
verb (English)
1. (dialect) To smear or become smeared with a grimy substance.Examples: "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."; "A saddler refused to black the linen lining of a harness-collar, though he had been told to do so, because the colouring would "bolter" the horse."dialectal
2. (of a whale) To swim or turn sideways while eating.Examples: "Close observers of the habits of whales in more recent times however do not record this practice and it must be regarded as a fanciful belief which probably arose as Gunther (1949) suggests as a fisherman's explanation of the patches and their frequent association with boltering whales."; "Concerning with feeding habits of baleen whales, it has been also known that they follow to two different ways to collect the food organisms, say, “skimming” and “swallowing ” or “gulping ” by boltering the body while feeding,"; "May be seen "breaching," propelling the body about halfway out of the water, then falling back with a huge splash; "Skyhopping," rising vertically out of the water apparently to visually scan the area; and "boltering," lying on its side while waving a pectoral fin in the air."
3. (military, aviation) To miss a landing on an aircraft carrier by failing to catch the arresting gear wires with the aircraft's tailhook.Examples: "Commander Kleemann came back and boltered again on his second attempt. lt is unheard of for him to bolter twice in a row. Then on his third attempt he got aboard with an OK three-wire trap."; "In the Diamondback's ready room, a tailhook bolt hangs by a string from the ceiling over one pilot's seat; he was the last to "bolter" that day, meaning he missed the wires while landing and had to make another pass."; "Tomcat 209 had one engine out, and if his tailhook failed to engage an arrestor wire, he wouldn't have the power necessary to complete a touch-and-go and would bolter off the forward end of the flight deck again."
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