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noun

Bolter n.

One who sifts flour or meal.

An instrument or machine for separating bran from flour, or the coarser part of meal from the finer; a sieve.

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Etymology of 'Bolter'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bolter" Quotes from Famous Books

... see no more: And yet the eighth appeares, who beares a glasse, Which shewes me many more: and some I see, That two-fold Balles, and trebble Scepters carry. Horrible sight: Now I see 'tis true, For the Blood-bolter'd Banquo smiles vpon me, And points at them for his. What? is this so? 1 I Sir, all this is so. But why Stands Macbeth thus amazedly? Come Sisters, cheere we vp his sprights, And shew the best of our delights. Ile Charme the Ayre to giue a sound, While ...

— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare

... loyal flag fluttered. Ah, God help us! I have done something too. My name is Roger Wildrake of Squattlesea-mere, Lincoln; not that you are ever like to have heard it before, but I was captain in Lunsford's light-horse, and afterwards with Goring. I was a child-eater, sir—a babe-bolter." ...

— Woodstock; or, The Cavalier • Sir Walter Scott

... Flint, smiling his gold-toothed smile. "The wildest bolter has got to stop, or fall dead, once you close his nostrils. That's what we'll do to the world, Wally. We'll get it by the throat—and there ...

— The Air Trust • George Allan England