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noun

Jolt n.

A sudden shock or jerk; a jolting motion, as in a carriage moving over rough ground. "The first jolt had like to have shaken me out."

A physical or psychological shock; see jolt v. t. senses 2 and 3; as, the stock market plunge was a big jolt to his sense of affluence; he touched the casing of the ungrounded motor and got a jolt from a short inside.

Something which causes a jolt (2); as, the bad news was a jolt.

verb

Jolt v. t.

To cause to move with a sudden motion, especially an 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.

To stun or shock a person physically, as with a blow or electrical shock; as, the earthquake jolted him out of bed.

To stun or shock or change the mental state of (a person) suddenly, as if with a blow; as, the sight of the house on fire jolted him into action; his mother's early death jolted his idyllic happiness.

Jolt v. i. (past & past part. jolted; pres. part. jolting) To shake with short, abrupt risings and fallings, as a carriage moving on rough ground; as, the coach jolts.

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Etymology of 'Jolt'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Jolt" Quotes from Famous Books

... some smothering dreams, you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin, If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs Bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,— My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for ...

— Poems • Wilfred Owen

... there's contact plates spotted around the bowl. When one of 'em lines up with a live contact, you get quite a little jolt—guaranteed nonlethal. All you've got to do is hold on long enough, and you'll get ...

— Gambler's World • John Keith Laumer

... stole into Grace's eyes. "Why, where—" She paused as though she had come upon something which did not quite please her. As a matter of fact it had recurred to her with an unpleasant jolt that Evelyn was wearing an evening gown entirely too expensive for her present circumstances. So were her evening coat, her scarf and all the dainty appointments which so perfectly matched the white silk ...

— Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus • Jessie Graham Flower

... started up—was it a jolt, a shock? She had all at once got a fright, as it were: she had not asked anything ...

— The Son of His Mother • Clara Viebig

... Frederickstadt on the 26th, orders came for our return to Krugersdorp on the 27th. We had an uneventful march to Wolverdiend, and there entrained, reaching our destination late in the evening. The officers, as usual, rode in the guard's van, and, as these trains used to bump and jolt in the most unpleasant manner, we made ourselves as comfortable as we could in a sort of 'zariba' composed of our valises and a number of large packages sewn up in sackcloth. Our feelings when we later ...

— The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War - With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland • Cecil Francis Romer and Arthur Edward Mainwaring

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