A device, such as a drill, that operates with a jerking or jolting motion.
The choppy, jolting style is striking. But not as striking, perhaps, as his animus for Isabel Lyon.
Although perhaps not as jolting as an alarm clock, a cat's "soliciting purr" can still pry its owner from sleep.
I'm concerned about the possible jolting, squeezing and collision that may take place when these cases are moved about.
Better that they had died in Atlanta than, tortured by this day of burning sun and jolting wagon, to die in the silent ruins of Tara.
Cutting aid is not the only lever Mr Obama has for jolting Israel into acquiescence over the settlements. Louder verbal expressions of dismay than any of his predecessors have made would be one more.
The chair chuffed slowly up the incline, rocking and jolting on the frozen clods. And suddenly, on the left, came a clearing where there was nothing but a ravel of dead bracken, a thin and spindly sapling leaning here and there, big sawn stumps, showing their tops and their grasping roots, lifeless.
