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31%7Fugitives
noun

• A person or thing that bolts, or runs suddenly.

• A plant that grows larger and more rapidly than usual.

• (flour milling) A machine or mechanism that automatically sifts milled flour.

• A person who sifts flour or meal.

• (petroleum refining) A filter mechanism.

• An obscure athlete who wins an upset victory.

• (horseracing) A horse that wins at long odds.

• In team sports, a relatively little-known or inexperienced player who inspires the team to greater success.

• A member of a political party who does not support the party's nominee.

• A missed landing on an aircraft carrier; an aircraft that has made a missed landing.

• A kind of fishing line; a boulter.

verb

• To smear or become smeared with a grimy substance

• To sift or filter through a sieve or bolter.

• To fish using a bolter.

• To pound rapidly.

• (of a whale) To swim or turn sideways while eating.

• To miss a landing on an aircraft carrier by approaching at the wrong angle, thereby missing the tailhook wires.

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