Jowter vs Jolter - What's the difference?
jowter | jolter |
(obsolete) A mounted peddler of fish.
(archaic) A buyer and seller of fish.
* 1979 , Cormac McCarthy, Suttree , Random House, p.68:
As nouns the difference between jowter and jolter
is that jowter is a mounted peddler of fish while jolter is one who, or that which, jolts.jowter
English
Alternative forms
* jousterNoun
(en noun)- (Carew)
- He lifted out the catfish and selected a small carp. They watched the needle swing. The old jowter twisted up the apron in his hands. Two and a half, he said.
