▪ I. jolter, n.1
(ˈdʒəʊltə(r))
[f. jolt v. + -er1.]
One who or that which jolts; a jolting carriage.
| 1611 Cotgr., Secoueur, a shaker, tosser, swinger, ioulter. 1843 Knickerbocker XXI. 39 The traveller has but to express a wish to visit a distant plantation, and his..luggage is placed in the donkeyed jolter. 1852 R. S. Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour (1893) 146 It was two o'clock before Mr. Spraggon was again in his jolter. |
▪ II. jolter, n.2
Also joulter.
App. a variant of jowter, a hawker, pedlar.
Perhaps only an individualism of the writers; the form is not in E.D. Dict. and the word not cited from Ireland.
| 1841 S. C. Hall Ireland II. 157 A jolter, a man selling oysters, brooms and sundries, was as welcome to the servants' hall, as a pedlar with shawls and laces to the drawing room. 1845 A. M. Hall Whiteboy x. 85 The widdy sould them [ducks] to a Cork joulter for eightpence a couple. |
▪ III. ˈjolter, v. rare.
[Frequentative of jolt v.: see -er5.]
intr. and trans. To jolt, to move with continuous jolting.
| 1828 Lamb Wife's Trial i, I am jolter'd, bruised, and shook to death, With your vile Wiltshire roads. 1864 Sala in Daily Tel. 13 Oct., The luggage! It was coming joltering in a van to the place where we couldn't get a bed. |