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Is bolter a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word bolter is a Scrabble US word. The word bolter is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Is bolter a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word bolter is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

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Is bolter a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word bolter is a Words With Friends word. The word bolter is worth 10 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (1 found)

BOLTER,

5-letter words (5 found)

BLERT,BLORE,BOREL,BOTEL,ROBLE,

4-letter words (20 found)

BELT,BLET,BLOT,BOET,BOLE,BOLT,BORE,BORT,BOTE,EORL,LOBE,LORE,LOTE,ORLE,ROBE,ROLE,ROTE,ROTL,TOLE,TORE,

3-letter words (24 found)

BEL,BET,BOR,BOT,BRO,ELT,LET,LOB,LOR,LOT,OBE,OLE,ORB,ORE,ORT,REB,REO,RET,ROB,ROE,ROT,TEL,TOE,TOR,

2-letter words (12 found)

BE,BO,EL,ER,ET,LO,OB,OE,OR,RE,TE,TO,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 63 words from bolter according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of bolter

bolter

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.
  3. (flour milling) A machine or mechanism that automatically sifts milled flour.
  4. A person who sifts flour or meal.
  5. (petroleum refining) A filter mechanism.
  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

  • (antonym(s) of "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

  • (antonym(s) of "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

Source: wiktionary.org