Also bolter. [Deriv. unknown: see also BULTER, BULTEY.] A long fishing-line armed with a large number of hooks.
1602. Carew, Cornwall, 34 a. These Hakes … are taken with … the boulter [ed. 1811 bolter], which is a Spiller of a bigger size.
1848. C. A. Johns, Week at Lizard, 243. Spillers and boulters are long stout lines, to which are attached several hundred baited hooks, with an anchor and waste-line furnished with corks at the end.
1883. Fisheries Exhib. Catal., 126. Bolter, Card containing thirteen sizes of hooks.
