Definify.com

Webster 1828 Edition

Jolting

JOLTING

,

ppr.

Giving sudden jerks or shakes.

Definition 2025

jolting

jolting

English

Verb

jolting

present participle of jolt

Noun

jolting ‎(plural joltings)

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.