bolter

Meanings

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

1. 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. To swim or turn sideways while eating.
6. To miss a landing on an aircraft carrier by failing to catch the arresting gear wires with the aircraft's tailhook.

1. A surname originating as an occupation.

Etymology

From bolt + -er.