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▪ I. jolter, n.1|ˈdʒəʊltə(r)| [f. jolt v. + -er1.] One who or that which jolts; a jolting carriage.
1611Cotgr., Secoueur, a shaker, tosser, swinger, ioulter. 1843Knickerbocker XXI. 39 The traveller has but to express a wish to visit a distant plantation, and his..luggage is placed in the donkeyed jolter. 1852R. 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.
1841S. 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. 1845A. 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.
1828Lamb Wife's Trial i, I am jolter'd, bruised, and shook to death, With your vile Wiltshire roads. 1864Sala in Daily Tel. 13 Oct., The luggage! It was coming joltering in a van to the place where we couldn't get a bed. |