a. Also dial. cholter-. [f. prec. + -ED2.] = JOLT-HEADED.

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1748.  Richardson, Clarissa (1811), VI. xxvi. 111. Half-a-dozen jolter-headed crop-eared boys.

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1765.  Treat. Dom. Pigeons, 69. The Dutch tumbler is … larger, often feather-leg’d, and more joulter-headed.

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1821.  Scott, Kenilw., xxvii. How didst thou come off with yonder jolter-headed giant?

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1876.  Whitby Gloss., Cholter-headed, stultified, heavy headed.

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  Hence Jolterheadedness.

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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.

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