boulter

American  

[bohl-ter] / ˈboʊl tər /

noun

1. a long, stout fishing line with several hooks attached.

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Etymology

Origin of boulter

First recorded in 1595–1605; origin uncertain

Example Sentences

Then let it run through a boulter, and put a little Orange flower-water to it, and sliced bread; and so serve it up cold.

From The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by MacDonell, Anne

These Hakes and diuers of the other forerecited, are taken with threds, & some of them with the boulter, which is a Spiller of a bigger size.

From The Survey of Cornwall And an epistle concerning the excellencies of the English tongue by Carew, Richard

This means literally: 'Riven as a blacksmith rives a sieve or boulter.'

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes

Bruise and mash them with your hands to press out all their juyce, which strain through a boulter cloth, into a deep narrow Woodden tub, and cover it close with clothes.

From The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by MacDonell, Anne

Or you may tye it up in a loose thin linnen cloth, or boulter, as they do Capons à la mode, or Brawn, or the like.

From The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by MacDonell, Anne