▪ I. † jolting, a. Obs.
[app. from first element of jolt-head, with ppl. ending. See note to jolt v.]
In jolting pate = jolt-head 1, 2.
| 1579–80 North Plutarch, Pericles, This tyranne here, this heauy iollting pate. 1650 Bulwer Anthropomet. i. 7 Cratinus jesting at his monstrous joulting pate. |
▪ II. jolting, vbl. n.
(ˈdʒəʊltɪŋ)
[f. jolt v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. jolt; the process of being jolted; a shaking in a carriage, etc.
| 1641 Wilkins Math. Magick ii. ii. (1648) 161 Whether..Unevenness of the Ground, will not cause such a jolting of the Chariot. 1713 Derham Phys.-Theol. i. iii. (1727) 25 note, They..found him dead, and that he had been brought thither in the same Posture on Horseback, notwithstanding the jolting of the Horse. 1881 Besant & Rice Chapl. of Fleet i. iii. (1883) 16 The best thing to cure a crying fit is a good jolting..in a country cart. |
▪ III. jolting, ppl. a.
(ˈdʒəʊltɪŋ)
[f. jolt v. + -ing2.]
That jolts (in senses of the vb.).
| 1599 Marston Sco. Villanie i. iii. 183 Hurried In ioulting Coach. 1772 Poetry in Ann. Reg. 221 From jolting stones An easy litter sav'd my bones. 1889 Spectator 14 Dec. 839 His unusually unmusical and even jolting verse. |
Hence ˈjoltingly adv., in a jolting manner, so as to jolt.
| 1843 Fraser's Mag. XXVII. 657 Off they started most joltingly. 1859 Cornwallis New World I. 151 We drove joltingly over a rough lava plain deeply furrowed. |