Jolt
[dʒəʊlt;dʒɒlt] or [dʒolt]
Definition
(noun.) a sudden jarring impact; 'the door closed with a jolt'; 'all the jars and jolts were smoothed out by the shock absorbers'.
(verb.) disturb (someone's) composure; 'The audience was jolted by the play'.
(verb.) move or cause to move with a sudden jerky motion.
Typist: Morton--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To shake with short, abrupt risings and fallings, as a carriage moving on rough ground; as, the coach jolts.
(v. t.) To cause to shake with a sudden up and down motion, as in a carriage going over rough ground, or on a high-trotting horse; as, the horse jolts the rider; fast driving jolts the carriage and the passengers.
(n.) A sudden shock or jerk; a jolting motion, as in a carriage moving over rough ground.
Edited by Charlene
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Be shaken (as a carriage by passing over rough ground).
v. a. Shake (as a carriage does when passing over rough ground).
n. Shaking, jolting.
Editor: Rhoda
Definition
v.i. to shake with sudden jerks.—v.t. to shake with a sudden shock.—n. a sudden jerk.—ns. Jolt′er; Jolt′-head Jolt′erhead a blockhead.—adv. Jolt′ingly in a jolting manner.
Editor: Lou
Examples
- The first jolt had like to have shaken me out of my hammock, but afterward the motion was easy enough. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Before we get to our destination we find the wheels themselves beginning to thump and jolt, and the passage becomes more difficult, more uncomfortable, and so much slower. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- This affords the maximum of riding comfort by the elimination of all jar and jolt occasioned by an uneven roadway. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Almost at the instant of impact I turned my bows upward, and then with a shattering jolt we were in collision. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- With a jolt it stopped before the cottage, and a black-haired giant leaped out to run up onto the porch. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- In the jolt of my head I heard somebody crying. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- What time, the mail-coach lumbered, jolted, rattled, and bumped upon its tedious way, with its three fellow-inscrutables inside. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- They have rumbled through the streets, and jolted over the stones, and at length reach the wide and open country. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The moment he saw Gudrun something jolted in his soul. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- A blinding flash went over his brain, his body jolted. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The country roads seem to be not very good in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The hackney-coach jolted along Fleet Street, as hackney-coaches usually do. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Old habits, old restraints, the hand of inherited order, plucked back the bewildered mind which passion had jolted from its ruts. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- And the wagon drove off, rattling and jolting over the frozen road. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I never did feel such a jolting in my life,' said Mr. Pickwick. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Our bones were nearly knocked out of joint, we were wild with excitement, and our sides ached with the jolting we had suffered. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- To increase this smoothness of travel he added a system of spring carriage to his engine, and saved it from the jolting that had handicapped his first model. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- She went on, with the discord jarring and jolting through her, in the most barren of misery. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The last time you were out in a cab, you came home with a headache from the jolting. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I was the only inside passenger, jolting away knee-deep in straw, when I came to myself. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The engine had no springs, and its movement was a series of jolts, that injured the rails and shook the machinery apart. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
Typist: Mason