bolter

Definitions

• A person or thing that bolts, or runs suddenly.
• (botany) A plant that grows larger and more rapidly than usual.
• (flour milling) A machine or mechanism that automatically sifts milled flour.
• A person who sifts flour or meal.
• (petroleum refining) A filter mechanism.
• (Australia) An obscure athlete who wins an upset victory.
• (Australia) A horse that wins at long odds.
• (New Zealand) In team sports, a relatively little-known or inexperienced player who inspires the team to greater success.
• (US) A member of a political party who does not support the party's nominee.
• (military) A missed landing on an aircraft carrier; an aircraft that has made a missed landing.
• A kind of fishing line; a boulter.