a. Also dial. cholter-. [f. prec. + -ED2.] = JOLT-HEADED.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa (1811), VI. xxvi. 111. Half-a-dozen jolter-headed crop-eared boys.
1765. Treat. Dom. Pigeons, 69. The Dutch tumbler is larger, often feather-legd, and more joulter-headed.
1821. Scott, Kenilw., xxvii. How didst thou come off with yonder jolter-headed giant?
1876. Whitby Gloss., Cholter-headed, stultified, heavy headed.
Hence Jolterheadedness.
1852. Dickens, Lett., to W. Collins, Dec. I. 294. The jolterheadedness of the conceited idiots who suppose that volumes are to be tossed off like pancakes.