n. One who bolts, in any sense of the verb.n. A sieve; an instrument or machine for separating bran from flour, or the coarser part of meal from the finer.n. A kind of fishing-line.To clot.n. A machine for sawing logs into a size suitable for cutting into small strips. The pieces cut by a bolter are called bolts, and these bolts are sawed into laths, pickets, etc., in a gang-saw.n. In archery, an archer who, after drawing the bow, looses too soon.