different between bolter vs bolster

English

Etymology

From bolt +? -er.

Pronunciation

Noun

bolter (plural bolters)

1. A person or thing that bolts, or runs suddenly.
   • 1992 June, Bill Tarrant, Gun Dogs: Problems with a Hunting Pattern, Field & Stream, page 104,

     Bolting can be one of the worst problems in dogdom to solve. We?ve all seen a bolter — or rather, we haven't seen him. We released him to hunt, and he was gone for the day, the week, the month. I?ve known of bolters to be gone for years.

2. (botany, horticulture) A plant that grows larger and more rapidly than usual.
   • 1949, Redcliffe Nathan Salaman, The History and Social Influence of the Potato, 2000, page 68,

     Evidence is accumulating that bolters are plants which have changed their long-day habit to that of short-day.

3. (flour milling) A machine or mechanism that automatically sifts milled flour.
   • 1983, Terry S. Reynolds, Stronger Than a Hundred Men: A History of the Vertical Water Wheel, page 138,

     The bolter was basically a sheet or roll of wire mesh or cloth (most often canvas or linen, but sometimes silk or another fabric). The flour produced by the mill was fed through or over the device, which was shaken by a mechanism (several were possible) taking power from the drive train leading from the water wheel to the millstones.

4. A person who sifts flour or meal.
5. (petroleum refining) A filter mechanism.
   • 1920, Henry Palmer Westcott, Hand Book of Natural Gas, page 634,

     This first bolter contains a screen of eight meshes to the inch and separates the hard particles, dirt or scale.

6. (Australia, sports) An obscure athlete who wins an upset victory.
7. (Australia, horseracing) A horse that wins at long odds.
8. (New Zealand, sports) In team sports, a relatively little-known or inexperienced player who inspires the team to greater success.
9. (US, politics) A member of a political party who does not support the party's nominee.
10. (military, aviation) A missed landing on an aircraft carrier; an aircraft that has made a missed landing.
11. A kind of fishing line; a boulter.

Antonyms

• (missed landing on an aircraft carrier): trap

Verb

bolter (third-person singular simple present bolters, present participle boltering, simple past and past participle boltered)

1. (dialect) To smear or become smeared with a grimy substance
   • .
2. To sift or filter through a sieve or bolter.
3. To fish using a bolter.
4. To pound rapidly.
5. (of a whale) To swim or turn sideways while eating.
6. (military, aviation) To miss a landing on an aircraft carrier by failing to catch the arresting gear wires with the aircraft's tailhook.

Usage notes

The meaning to smear or be smeared with a grimy substance was originally used primarily to refer to farm animals getting wet with sweat, rain, etc. and then "boltering" with mud, hair, etc. However, its use by Shakespeare (Macbeth) popularized the term as referring to getting covered in blood, and most modern uses refer to boltering with blood.

Antonyms

• (miss a landing on an aircraft carrier): trap

Anagrams

• Bortle, Tobler, reblot, rebolt, troble

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

bolter m

1. indefinite plural of bolt

Verb

bolter

1. present tense of bolte

English

Alternative forms

• boulster
• bowster, bouster, boster (Scotland)

Etymology

From Middle English bolster, bolstre, from Old English bolster (“pillow”), from Proto-Germanic *bulstraz, *bulstr? (“pillow, cushion”). Cognate with Scots bowster (“bolster”), West Frisian bulster (“mattress”), Dutch bolster (“husk, shell”), German Polster (“bolster, pillow, pad”), Swedish bolster (“soft mattress, bolster”), Icelandic bólstur (“pillow”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b??lst?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?bo?lst?/

Noun

bolster (plural bolsters)

1. A large cushion or pillow.
   • 1590–92, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, act 4, scene 1:

     And here I'll fling the pillow, there the bolster,
     This way the coverlet, another way the sheets.

   • 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, VII [Uniform ed., p. 84]:

     "Don’t you know how Turner spoils his pictures by introducing a man like a bolster in the foreground? Well, in actual life every landscape is spoilt by men of worse shapes still.”

     “You sound like a bolster with the stuffing out.” They laughed.

2. A pad, quilt, or anything used to hinder pressure, support part of the body, or make a bandage sit easy upon a wounded part; a compress.
   • 1715, John Gay, The What D'Ye Call It?

     This arm shall be a bolster for thy head.

3. (vehicles, agriculture) A small spacer located on top of the axle of horse-drawn wagons that gives the front wheels enough clearance to turn.
4. A short, horizontal structural timber between a post and a beam for enlarging the bearing area of the post and/or reducing the span of the beam.

   Synonyms: cross-head, pillow

5. A beam in the middle of a railway truck, supporting the body of the car.
6. The perforated plate in a punching machine on which anything rests when being punched.
7. The part of a knife blade that abuts upon the end of the handle.
8. The metallic end of a pocketknife handle.
9. (architecture) The rolls forming the ends or sides of the Ionic capital.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of G. Francis to this entry?)

10. (military, historical) A block of wood on the carriage of a siege gun, upon which the breech of the gun rests when arranged for transportation.

Synonyms

• Dutch wife

Translations

Verb

bolster (third-person singular simple present bolsters, present participle bolstering, simple past and past participle bolstered)

1. (transitive, often figuratively) To brace, reinforce, secure, or support.

Translations

Anagrams

• Bortles, Strobel, Stroble, bolters, lobster, reblots, rebolts, trobles

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch bolster, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bulstraz. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?l.st?r/
• Hyphenation: bol?ster
• Rhymes: -?lst?r

Noun

bolster m (plural bolsters, diminutive bolstertje n)

1. a bur, a spiny cupule, often of a chestnut

Derived terms

• bolsteren
• ontbolsteren

Middle English

Alternative forms

• bolstre, bolstere, bowstur (northern)

Etymology

From Old English bolster, from Proto-Germanic *bulstraz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?lst?r/

Noun

bolster (plural bolsters)

1. A soft stuffed bag to lie or lean on; a cushion or pillow.
2. (rare) A pad; a piece of cushioning.
3. (rare) A supporting piece of metal.

Descendants

• English: bolster
• Scots: bowster, bouster, boster

References

• “bolster, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-09-14.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *bulstraz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bol.ster/, [?bo?.ster]

Noun

bolster m

1. pillow

Declension

Synonyms

• pyle
• wangere

Derived terms

• bedbolster
• h?afodbolster
• hl?orbolster

Descendants

• Middle English: bolster, bolstre, bolstere, bowstur
  • English: bolster
  • Scots: bowster, bouster, boster

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish bulster, bolster, from Old Norse bólstr, bulstr, from Proto-Germanic *bulstraz, from Proto-Indo-European *b?el??- (“bag, pillow, paunch”). Compare Icelandic bólstur, Dutch bolster, German Polster and English bolster.

Noun

bolster n

1. a bolster, a large cushion or pillow

Declension