bolter

Plural: bolters

Noun

• A machine for sifting or separating grain from flour.
• A person or thing that bolts, or runs suddenly.
• A plant that grows larger and more rapidly than usual.
• A machine or mechanism that automatically sifts milled flour.
• A person who sifts flour or meal.
• A filter mechanism.
• An obscure athlete who wins an upset victory.
• A horse that wins at long odds.
• In team sports, a relatively little-known or inexperienced player who inspires the team to greater success.
• A member of a political party who does not support the party's nominee.
• A missed landing on an aircraft carrier; an aircraft that has made a missed landing.
• A kind of fishing line; a boulter.
• Someone who equips a sport route by putting bolts in the rock.

Verb

• To smear or become smeared with a grimy substance.
• To sift or filter through a sieve or bolter.
• To fish using a bolter.
• To pound rapidly.
• To swim or turn sideways while eating.
• To miss a landing on an aircraft carrier by failing to catch the arresting gear wires with the aircraft's tailhook.

Examples

• My opponent played BOLTER, a word I rarely see, demonstrating their extensive vocabulary.

Antonyms

trap