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Webster 1828 Edition


Jolting

JOLTING

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ppr.
Giving sudden jerks or shakes.

Definition 2024


jolting

jolting

English

Verb

jolting

  1. present participle of jolt

Noun

jolting (plural joltings)

  1. A movement or action that jolts.
    • Herman Melville, Pierre
      [] the inmates of the coach, by numerous hard, painful joltings, and and ponderous, dragging trundlings, are suddenly made sensible of some great change in the character of the road.