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bolter

US // (ˈbəʊltə) //

栓子,螺栓,螺栓工,栓塞器

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Australian informal

    • : an outsider in a contest or race
    • : history an escaped convict; bushranger

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Examples

  • 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.”