[f. JAR v. + -ING1.] The action of the vb. JAR.
1. The production or utterance of a harsh grating, creaking or vibratory sound; a sound of this kind; harsh dissonance; discordant sound.
1555. W. Watreman, Fardle Facions, II. viii. 187. Certeine saluages with dogges heades … that make a very terrible charringe with their mouths.
1567. Drant, trans. Horace, Art Poetry. What though sum iudges cannot marke the iarringe of a rime.
1653. H. Cogan, trans. Pinto’s Trav., lxix. 281. It was a most dreadfull thing to hear the discord and jarring of those barbarous instruments.
1820. Byron, Mar. Fal., I. i. 11. He hears the jarring of a distant door.
2. Vibration caused by concussion; agitation of the nerves or feelings, as from a physical shock.
1775. Phil. Trans., LXV. 192. The great jarring [was] consequent upon taking off the old rafters.
1873. J. Richards, Wood-working Factories, 152. The jarring communicated to the foot is disagreeable, and often injurious in heavy work.
1880. Le Conte, Sight, 11. Coarse vibrations are perceived by the nerves of common sensation as a jarring.
1893. Winning of May iii. The sense of leisure and culture … rested her nerves after their long jarring in cramped noisy quarters.
3. Discordant or conflicting action.
1581. J. Bell, Haddon’s Answ. Osor., 172 b. By what meanes can you forge unto us such a crafty devise of iarryng, in so uniforme an agreement of Iudgement, betwixt Luther and Calvine?
1695. Woodward, Nat. Hist. Earth (1702), 60. Natural Things will continue … without Jarring, Disorder, or Invasion of one another.
1772. Sir J. Reynolds, Disc., v. (1876), 365. A harsh jarring of incongruent principles.
4. Quarrelling, disputing, wrangling.
1574. Studley, trans. Bale’s Pageant Popes, III. 49. After wrangling and iarring betwene him and Theophilact.
1649. Cromwell, Lett., Nov. in Carlyle. If the Father … be so kind, why should there be such jarrings and heart-burnings amongst the children?
1719. D’Urfey, Pills (1872), I. 32. Strange jarring I know ’Twixt the High Church and Low.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., II. V. iv. Nothing but untempered obscure jarring; which breaks forth ever and anon into open clangour of riot.
