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bolter
/ ˈbəʊltə /
noun
- an outsider in a contest or race
- 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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