Jolt vs Polt - What's the difference?
jolt | polt |
To push or shake abruptly and roughly.
To knock sharply; to deal a blow to.
To shock (someone) into taking action or being alert; as, to jolt someone out of complacency
To shock emotionally.
To shake; to move with a series of jerks.
An act of jolting.
A surprise or shock.
(slang) A long prison sentence.
(slang) A narcotic injection.
A hard knock.
*1782:' , ''Cecilia, or memoirs of an heiress'' - If he know'd I'd got you the knife, he'd go nigh to give me a good ' polt of the head.
(obsolete, rare) A pestle.
*1612 , John Smith, Map of Virginia , in Kupperman 1988, p. 138:
*:Their corne they rost in the eare greene, and bruising it in a morter of wood with a Polt , lappe it in rowles in the leaves of their corne, and so boyle it for a daintie.
As nouns the difference between jolt and polt
is that jolt is an act of jolting while polt is a hard knock.As a verb jolt
is to push or shake abruptly and roughly.jolt
English
(wikipedia jolt)Verb
(en verb)- The bus jolted its passengers.
- Her untimely death jolted us all.
- The bus jolted along the stony path.