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bolter
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Bolter may refer to: Bolter (aviation) , a term in naval aviation when a pilot misses the arrestor cable on an aircraft carrier and performs a go-around Bolter (politics) , a party member who does not support the regular nominee of his or her party in American ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bolter \Bolt"er\, 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.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A person or thing that bolts, or runs suddenly. 2 (context botany horticulture English) A plant that grows larger and more rapidly than usual. 3 (context flour milling English) A machine or mechanism that automatically sifts milled flour. 4 A person ...
Usage examples of bolter.
Someone had hit his cover with something heavy, a rocket perhaps or a very heavy bolter shell.
One time they landed late in the afternoon, and yet were foolishly sent off, Bolter in charge.
He had long since got his confidence back after the double bolter, and four months of flying had made his decisions crisper.
I have listened to them conferring together and proving beyond a shadow of doubt that the arrival of Bolter at the winning-post in advance of all others is as sure a thing as the arrival of the sun over the horizon in the morning.
LSO call the bolter for 101 over the radio, knew that Bayerly would have been directed out and around for another pass.
Each time an aviator pulled a bolter, it shook his confidence in himself and in his aircraft that much more.
His hand slammed the throttle full forward and his engines thundered with renewed life and power, ready to take him off the deck again in a touch-and-go bolter if his tail hook failed to connect.
One day, after swapping horses many miles from home, he found himself driving a terrified bolter that he only just managed to stop on the edge of a big embankment.
When the wind blows outside, dust still clouds up from the meal bin through the chute into the tattered bolter that hangs crooked in its frame.
He could see that the turret-mounted bolters were already swivelling to bear on him.
As he said it, for the first time since his bolters the night before, Tombstone pictured himself going up again, pictured himself once more bringing the HUD pipper into line with an enemy MiG.
If he boltered for any reason, he and Flap were going to have to swim for it.
The next plane was the Phantom that boltered, and this time he was steadier.
Yet the steeper glide slope fooled him and he was fast all the way, flattened out at the ramp and boltered again.
Rain was ruining the visibility, the sea was freshening, and one of the F-4's had already boltered twice.