bolter (English, verb)
expansion: bolter (third-person singular simple present bolters, present participle boltering, simple past and past participle boltered)
Senses:
glosses: To smear or become smeared with a grimy substance.
tags: dialectal
glosses: To sift or filter through a sieve or bolter.
glosses: To fish using a bolter.
glosses: To pound rapidly.
glosses: To swim or turn sideways while eating.
raw_tags: of a whale
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: To miss a landing on an aircraft carrier by failing to catch the arresting gear wires with the aircraft's tailhook.
Forms:
form: bolters
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: boltering
tags: participle
present
form: boltered
tags: participle
past
form: boltered
tags: past