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bolter

/ ˈbəʊltə /

noun

  1. an outsider in a contest or race
  2. history an escaped convict; bushranger


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Example Sentences

After The Bolter was first published in the U.K., a woman wrote to me from Canada.

The Bolter by Frances Osborne gave me a wicked summer weekend read.

"Well, so far as I can see, Bolter has not been running away," he said thoughtfully.

Leon Bolter was made a first assistant engineer, and Fred Faggs the second.

Whenever he spoke, again, Morris Bolter—quite as instantly, just as visibly and as audibly—was there upon the platform.

A wealthy Victorian was arrested as a Tasmanian bolter while I was in the colony.

One of her tricks, bolting, was not so very serious, but now she proved herself a “blind bolter.”

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