1736 Canting Dictionary / B / BOLTER of White Fryars [person]
one that peeps out, but dares not venture abroad.
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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
The Vulgar Tongue originally collected by Grose, 1811.
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).