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Boulter

Boulter \Boul"ter\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] A long, stout fishing line to which many hooks are attached.

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boulter

n. A long, stout fishing line with many hooks attached.

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Boulter

Boulter is a surname, and may refer to:

People with the surname Boulter:

  • Beau Boulter (born 1942), member of the United States House of Representatives
  • Edmund Boulter (1635-1709), London merchant
  • Eric Boulter (born 1952), Australian Paralympic swimmer
  • George Henry Boulter (born 1825), Ontario physician and political figure
  • Hugh Boulter (1672-1742), Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh
  • Les Boulter (footballer) (1913–1975), Charlton Athletic, Brentford and Wales international footballer
  • Michael Boulter (born 1942), British paleontologist
  • Roy Boulter (born 1964), English rock drummer
  • Russell Boulter (born 1963), British actor
  • Stanley Boulter (1852-1917), British lawyer and businessman
  • William Ewart Boulter (1892-1955), English recipient of the Victoria Cross

In fiction:

  • Brendan Boulter, a fictional character in soap opera Family Affairs
  • Kelly Boulter, a fictional character in soap opera Family Affairs
  • Les Boulter, a fictional character in soap opera Family Affairs

Usage examples of "boulter".

As Boulter pointed out to me this morning, no government enjoys being shown up as powerless to protect its citizens.

As they descended from the plane in Athens, they were met by Eric Boulter, the blind director of foreign-sponsored services for the blind in Greece.

Bob Irwin asked Eric Boulter to come over to the United States for an interview.

Nella lunched with Eric Boulter and Van Wyck Brooks, who brought a lawyer friend along to discuss a counterattack.

It was to Migel that Helen appealed in the festering dispute between Bob Barnett and Eric Boulter over the respective roles of the AFB and the AFOB.

Two weeks later Nancy showed the picture to the Foundation people, including the Migels, Amelia, Barnett, Boulter and Evelyn Seide.

He would stop their mouths if he could, and he went into the City, and was closeted with Boulter for a long time.

Jem Boulter, that sleeps in the next room to him, says, that, almost as often as he looks through the little window between the two rooms, no matter what hour in the night, he sees Mr.

In accordance with his resolve, our Forsyte had put his interests into the hands of Jobling and Boulter.

A new estimate and verification of the food supply takes place, domiciliary searches, seizures of special stores regarded as too ample,[83] limited rations for each consumer, a common and obligatory mess table for all prisoners, brown, égalité bread, mostly of bran, for every mouth that can chew, prohibition of the making of any other kind, confiscation of boulters and sieves,[84] the "individual," personal responsibility of every administrator who allows the people he directs to resist or escape providing the demanded supplies, the sequestration of his property, imprisonment, fines, the pillory and the guillotine to hurry up requisitions, or stop free trading, - every terrifying method is driven to the utmost against the farmers and cultivators of the soil.

I offered to take it for him for a quarter but the Boulters are so mean.

There's a contrary streak in all the Boulters and it's strongly developed in him.

But above all, those judicious collectors of bright parts, and flowers, and observandas, are to be nicely dwelt on, by some called the sieves and boulters of learning, though it is left undetermined, whether they dealt in pearls or meal, and consequently, whether we are more to value that which passed through, or what stayed behind.

Levi Boulter warned his neighbors that the Improvers would insist that everybody pull down his house and rebuild it after plans approved by the society.