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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 3

Part of speech: noun (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. Swift.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To shake with short, abrupt risings and fallings, as a carriage moving on rough ground; as, the coach jolts.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3

Part of speech: verb (v.)

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.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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