bolter vs washboard

bolter

noun
  • A kind of fishing line; a boulter. 

  • 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 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. 

washboard

noun
  • A board fastened along a ship's gunwale to prevent splashing; a splashboard. 

  • A stretch of ripples or bumps on a dirt or gravel road caused by interaction between traffic and road surface. 

  • Such a board used as a simple percussion instrument. 

  • A board with a corrugated surface against which laundry may be rubbed. 

verb
  • To play a washboard. 

  • To move up and down or back and forth across the surface of a hive, possibly to lay down a layer of propolis and wax. 

  • To produce a rippled texture on a surface. 

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