What's the difference between boater and bolter?

Boater


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They came in all different price points and in all different styles: round elephants reminiscent of French cartoons from the 1960s, and strange pseudo-sexual shimmies, and with 1920s straw boater hats leading parades.
  • (2) As a result, none of the venues are fit for swimmers or boaters, she said.
  • (3) City authorities encased the river bed in concrete in the 1930s, turning it into a flood-control channel that was a byword for contamination and forbidden to boaters.
  • (4) It is more serious in patients type blue boaters and less frequent among patients type pink puffers.
  • (5) Boaters and swimmers have largely ignored the dropping water levels in a place where splashing in cold fresh water on 100-plus-degree summer days is a treat.
  • (6) You don’t have to be a boater to appreciate London’s navigable waterways but living like this has encouraged me to explore places along less well-trodden towpaths.
  • (7) The vision is for an "aquatic National Trust" galvanising the estimated 11 million Britons who regularly benefit from them – boaters, anglers, cyclists, runners, Sunday strollers and waterside property dwellers – to invest time and money to protecting them for generations to come.
  • (8) As they walked into the ballroom where Warren spoke on Friday, hundreds of supporters snatched plastic boater-style hats declaring that the wearer backed “Elizabeth Warren for President,” a campaign that does not yet exist.
  • (9) He brought along a pack of non-filter cigarettes, a wide-brimmed boater hat and a bomber jacket.
  • (10) At the beginning the suitors in their straw-boater finery dithered, ecstatic when Sharapova, dragging them into her vortex of suffering, would win a point, or save one, through the sheer force of her will, and then cooed with equal ardour for Bouchard, rising from their seats when she unleashed a terrifying forehand to scorch the lines.
  • (11) The author examined a group of 20 patients with the predominance of chronic bronchitis--blue boaters (average VC was 1.95 l, FEV1--0.81 l, PaO2 while breathing atmospheric air 52 mm Hg and 68 mm Hg after giving oxygen, PaCO2 47 and 51 mm Hg respectively) and 20 patients with the predominance of emphysema--pink puffers (average VC--2.30 l, FEV1--0.86 l, PaO2 while breathing atmospheric air 60 mm Hg and 70 mm Hg after giving oxygen, PaCO2 39 and 40 mm respectively).
  • (12) Swimmers, boaters, and motor vehicle occupants were most frequently represented.
  • (13) Organisations representing Britain's 33,000 boaters and three million anglers agree something has to be done.
  • (14) David Suchet, the actor and boater, sent a message of support, saying: "I am fortunate in my life to have travelled extensively and enjoyed many other rivers worldwide.
  • (15) Delegates (1,650 of them by midday) are mostly lower-to-middle class, middle-to-old-aged white people, hordes of elderly bald men with red faces and moustaches (a terrifying sight); kilts, straw boaters and striped blazers, women dressed elaborately in Ukip gold or purple, a few tattoos and eyebrow rings too, a smattering of posh and Paul Sykes, ex-Tory zillionaire developer and Nigel-backer.
  • (16) Most boaters canoe or kayak the route, though motorboats and sailboats can be used in some sections.

Bolter


Definition:

  • (n.) One who bolts; esp.: (a) A horse which starts suddenly aside. (b) A man who breaks away from his party.
  • (n.) One who sifts flour or meal.
  • (n.) An instrument or machine for separating bran from flour, or the coarser part of meal from the finer; a sieve.
  • (n.) A kind of fishing line. See Boulter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hope u feel better xx” Bird told Channel 4’s political editor Michael Crick: “Natasha Bolter and I were in a consensual relationship between 18 September and 2 November, well after her admission to the list of approved candidates.
  • (2) Bolter has since abandoned her bid to stand in South Basildon in Essex.
  • (3) 2.31am BST Turnbull hurled his observation that the Bloguer Bolter, (with his treachery theory), was losing a certain amount of .. shall we say .. grip .. while attending Stay Smart Online week.
  • (4) Bird told the BBC : “We were in a relationship briefly, but that relationship developed well after she had been admitted to the approved candidates list, so her selection was not connected to this.” He added: “Natasha Bolter’s candidate assessment was conducted entirely within the rules, as the party has already verified.
  • (5) Bolter said she had decided to speak out to highlight the pressure on women to sleep with men in powerful posts to enhance their careers.
  • (6) She describes advocates of withdrawal as “bolters”, and adds: “They pose as the great patriots, but would any prime minister or British monarch (at least since Elizabeth I refused to marry a continental king) develop a clear policy to reduce the UK’s influence in Europe?
  • (7) In October, Smith was deselected without explanation, and a new contest was ordered, which was due to include Neil Hamilton, the former Conservative minister, and Natasha Bolter, a former Labour supporter.
  • (8) In October, Smith was deselected as the candidate for the Essex seat without explanation and a new contest was ordered, which was due to include Neil Hamilton, the former Tory minister, and Natasha Bolter, a former Labour supporter.
  • (9) We do not have a monopoly on stupidity, I promise you.” Farage said the problems his party had suffered in Basildon – where former Conservative MP Neil Hamilton withdrew his candidacy after questions about his expenses, and another would-be candidate Natasha Bolter made allegations of sexual harassment against the party’s general secretary – were caused by a struggle to secure what might be one of Ukip’s most winnable seats.
  • (10) Subsequent to that, Natasha Bolter and I were in a consensual relationship.
  • (11) The contest descended into chaos as questions were raised by Ukip about Hamilton’s expenses and Bolter became involved in a controversy about whether the party’s general secretary, Roger Bird, had made inappropriate sexual advances towards her.
  • (12) Bolter, a teacher, said: “He interviewed me for my PPC [prospective parliamentary candidate] exams … He interviewed me on policy.
  • (13) Bolter admitted sending friendly texts signed with an “x”.
  • (14) Bolter told the Times that Bird, who was involved in vetting candidates, made unwanted advances to her on the day she was interviewed after taking her to the Oxford and Cambridge Club in London.
  • (15) One of the other most remarked-upon features of Lessing's life is that, along with Muriel Spark, who unbeknown to her at the time lived nearby in Rhodesia, she is one of literature's most famous bolters - something for which she has been given a hard time, for refusing to demonstrate insufficient breastbeating.
  • (16) The suspended general secretary of Ukip, Roger Bird, has fought back in the battle to save his career amid claims that he sexually harassed Natasha Bolter , who until this week was a prominent female member of the party.
  • (17) I felt a little bit uncomfortable because it’s as though he found me attractive and he wanted to get to know me in a more intimate way as opposed to just being a good representative for the party.” At a subsequent meeting at his office Bird asked Bolter whether she would like to go for dinner though he insisted on buying her a dress because she was not dressed smartly enough.
  • (18) "Tom is a bit of a bolter – he's come from left field," added McNamara.
  • (19) Bolter told Newsnight: “If I would have slept with him, I would of probably had an easier time than I have had in Ukip.
  • (20) As Bird fought back by releasing intimate text messages from the former Labour supporter, Bolter said she assumed it was “party protocol” when he invited her to continue the interview at the Oxford and Cambridge Club in London.