Bolter may refer to: Bolter (aeronautics), a term in naval aviation when a pilot misses the arrestor cable on an aircraft carrier and performs a go-around Bolter, a type of sieve Arts and entertainment Bolter or Boltgun, a fictional automatic heavy caliber weapon firing "bolts" ammunition in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, with the term "bolter" primarily denote the assault rifle versions The Bolter, the narrator's mother in The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford "The Bolter", an episode of Upstairs, Downstairs The Bolter, a 2008 biography by Frances Osborne about Idina Sackville People with the surname Brian Bolter (fl. 1999–2013), American television news anchor and reporter Jay David Bolter (born 1951), American literary critic