bolter vs mustang

bolter

noun
  • A horse that wins at long odds. 

  • A machine or mechanism that automatically sifts milled flour. 

  • A person who sifts flour or meal. 

  • 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. 

mustang

noun
  • A small, hardy, naturalized (feral) horse of the North American west. 

  • A merchant marine who joined the U.S. Navy as a commissioned officer during the American Civil War. 

  • A commissioned officer who started military service as an enlisted person. 

verb
  • To hunt mustangs (wild horses), either for military use or for slaughter as pet food. 

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