jolt
verb
Indicative past, past participle and present participle: jolted, jolting.
Etymology: of uncertain origin.
Derived: jolter, jolty, joltiness, jolting, joltingly, joltless, joltproof, unjolted, rejolt.
Transitive uses:
1. The original acceptation seems to have been “to knock on or with the head; to butt with the head; to push with the elbow or other corporal part; to nudge”, which is now obsolete.
2. (The subject being a vehicle) to cause (a thing, a person or other animal carried or vehicled) to move with jolts; to displace or shake (load or rider) from one’s seat or place with an up-and-down motion, or to and fro, as a wheeled vehicle does in its locomotion over rough way, or as a trotting horse or other animal does; to transport joltingly or with the unwished effect of successive jerks; to cause to move with a jerky motion.
Synonyms: jounce, joggle, jiggle, joggle, jog.
Equivalents: cahoter, in French; fare sobbalzare, in Italian; estremecer, in Spanish.
[…] his resolution to be jolted no longer in a hackney coach.
Samuel Johnson (The Adventurer and Idler)
[…] when we got on Yarmouth pavement, we were all too much shaken and jolted, I apprehend, to have any leisure for anything else.
Charles Dickens (David Copperfield)
When being jolted in a two-wheeled post stage, without springs, over these villainous roads, the traveller will do well to fix beforehand the stopping places (for meals), as hostelries are few and far between.
J. M. LeMoine (Chronicles of St. Lawrence, 1878)
The coach hit another pothole and Pamela was jolted from the seat. She collided with John Fairchild, and his arms went around her.
John Wesley Howard (Easy Company on the Oklahoma Trail, 1982)
[…] the team of horses started to walk off the boat, and the driver was jolted from the seat where he was lying.
West Publishing Company (The Northeastern Reporter)
Backward and forward,—oscillation, space,—the travels of a postilion, miles enough to circle the globe in one short stage,—we have been, and we are yet to be, jolted and rattled over the loose, misplaced stones and the treacherous hollows of this rough, ill-kept, broken-up, treacherous French causeway!
Edmund Burke (The Works of Edmund Burke)
[…] we both stood up in the carriage (Richard holding Ada lest she should be jolted down) and gazed round upon the open country and the starlight night for our destination.
Charles Dickens (Bleak House)
Mr. George is quite confounded by the spectacle he beholds from time to time as he peeps into the cab through the window behind him, where the grim Judy is always motionless, and the old gentleman with his cap over one eye is always sliding off the seat into the straw and looking upward at him out of his other eye with a helpless expression of being jolted in the back.
Charles Dickens (Bleak House)
McCoy slammed the accelerator pedal down abruptly, and I was jolted back into the seat.
Russell C Coile, Jr., R. C. Coile Jr (Murder at Pebble Beach, 2004)
[…] he was jolted back into the seat with the motion of the carriages.
Eneas Sweetland Dallas (Once a Week, 1863)
3. (The subject being an animal dragger) to cause (the dragged vehicled) to move with jolts.
This idle conversation was suddenly interrupted. At the same moment both young men experienced a sinking sensation, as if the earth had been cut away from beneath their feet; then there was a crash, and they were violently thrown against each other; then they vaguely knew that the cab, heeling over, was being jolted along the street by a runaway horse. Fortunately, the horse could not run very fast, for the axle-tree, deprived of its wheel, was tearing at the road; but, all the same, the occupants of the cab thought they might as well get out, and so they tried to force open the two small panels of the door in front of them.
William Black (Macleod of Dare)
4. (Metaphorically) to startle, to surprise.
[…] the last word will jolt you.
Harold Crane (Letters, 27 Dec. 1919)
5. (Abusively) to move (anything) with a jerk; to force out jerkily; to knock out.
Her cunt was soon at the edge of the seat, her thighs wide open. I pushed my prick to-ward it, and touched it. It was so stiff, I could not bend it, to get it up her. It slipped away as the carriage jolted, and knocked against my own belly. Then I half raised myself, how I can't describe, I don't know, but I was leaning partly over her, and raising one of her thighs whilst I guided my prick right up her lovely orifice, to have it jolted out the next instant by the roll of the carriage.
Walter (My Secret Life)
6. (Metaphorically) to cause to be in an abrupt state or mood; hence, abrupt; interfere with abruptly.
[…] he was jolted back to reality.
Patrick D. Smith (A Land Remembered)
[…] jolted out of the mood.
Virginia Woolf
Intransitive uses:
1. (The subject being a vehicle) to move along with a succession of jolts, as on a rough way or ground; to be a jolter; to be jerky in locomotion.
Synonyms: tilt, jounce, bob, jiggle, joggle, quake, jog.
Equivalents: cahoter, in French; sobbalzare, in Italian; estremecer, in Spanish.
They got to their hotel there in an omnibus that jolted through the mud and the darkness.
William Black (The Beautiful Wretch)
It is night—a wet and dismal night—and a four-wheeled cab is jolting along through the dark and almost deserted thoroughfares of Manchester.
William Black (Macleod of Dare)
Down such steep pitches that the mare seemed to be trotting on her head, and up such steep pitches that she seemed to have a supplementary leg in her tail, the dog-cart jolted and tilted back to the village.
Charles Dickens (The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices)
The coach jolts, I wake with a start.
Charles Dickens (David Copperfield)
The omnibus, when stopping, got crammed full, and went slowly and noisily jolting on its way over a quite newly macadamized road.
Walter (My Secret Life)
Only a hedge separated us from the high-road to Dublin, which ran up hill, and by and by came toiling up the hill, sticking every other minute in a rut, or jolting into a hole—for the roads were in infamous condition about here, as, indeed, all over the kingdom of Ireland—a grand coach, all over painting and gilding, drawn by six grey horses, with flowing manes and tails.
George Augustus Sala (The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous)
The truck jolted away, trailing a haze of cinder dust and a sour stench of garbage behind it.
John Dos Passos (Three Soldiers)
The car jolted off with Robert standing in the middle of the narrow street, blocking traffic, waving his arm.
Robert Parker (Ticket to Oblivion, 1950)
[…] the car jolted off down the mountain.
Pamela Browning (Through Eyes of Love)
[…] the wagon jolted up the slope.
Ellen Glasgow
2. (The subject being a person or other animal) to ride with jolts; to be jolted.
[…] carts, with brick-makers and brick-makeresses jolting up and down on planks.
Charles Dickens (The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices)
[…] Mr. Piper, you who are a shrewd arithmetician, did it never occur to you to calculate how many fools' heads, which might have produced an idea or two in the year, if suffered to remain in quiet, get effectually addled by jolting to and fro in these flying chariots of yours.
Walter Scott (Chronicles of the Canongate)
I had taken a hackney-chariot and gone by the streets, I should have missed my aim; going as I did, I caught the coach just as it came out of the yard. I was the only inside passenger, jolting away knee-deep in straw, when I came to myself.
Charles Dickens (Great Expectations)
[…] when we began to jolt upon a stone pavement, and particularly when every other conveyance seemed to be running into us, and we seemed to be running into every other conveyance, I began to believe that we really were approaching the end of our journey. Very soon afterwards we stopped.
Charles Dickens (Bleak House)
3. (The subject being anything or a person in other circumstance than a vehicle’s jolting. Abusive acception.) to move up and down or to and fro in a jerky manner.
4. (Slang) to use a jolt of narcotic.
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