bolter vs hermit

bolter

noun
  • A person who sifts flour or meal. 

  • A horse that wins at long odds. 

  • A machine or mechanism that automatically sifts milled flour. 

  • A member of a political party who does not support the party's nominee. 

  • A plant that grows larger and more rapidly than usual. 

  • In team sports, a relatively little-known or inexperienced player who inspires the team to greater success. 

  • A kind of fishing line; a boulter. 

  • A missed landing on an aircraft carrier; an aircraft that has made a missed landing. 

  • A filter mechanism. 

  • An obscure athlete who wins an upset victory. 

  • A person or thing that bolts, or runs suddenly. 

verb
  • To pound rapidly. 

  • To smear or become smeared with a grimy substance. 

  • To sift or filter through a sieve or bolter. 

  • To miss a landing on an aircraft carrier by failing to catch the arresting gear wires with the aircraft's tailhook. 

  • To swim or turn sideways while eating. 

  • To fish using a bolter. 

hermit

noun
  • A spiced cookie made with molasses, raisins, and nuts. 

  • A religious recluse; someone who lives alone for religious reasons; an eremite. 

  • A recluse; someone who lives alone and shuns human companionship. 

  • A hermit crab. 

  • Any in the subfamily Phaethornithinae of hummingbirds. 

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