Obs. exc. dial. [app. onomatopœic: cf. JOG, JOPPER. The final t naturally expresses sudden interruption of action. For relation to JOLT, see that vb.] To jog, jolt, bump. a. trans. b. intr. (The first quot. is doubtful.)
[a. 1425. Langl.’s P. Pl., A. II. 157 (MS. Trin. Coll. Camb. R. 3. 14). Fabulers and Faytours as Folis iotten [v.r. Þat on Fote rennen].]
1530. Palsgr., 593/1. I iotte, I touche one thynge agaynst another … What nedest thou to iotte me with thyne elbowe?
1556. J. Heywood, Spider & F., xxiv. 45. Nowe is iuste iustice, so iotted out of iointe.
c. 1611. Chapman, Iliad, XVI. 360. Numbers beneath their axle-trees … Made th’ after chariots jot and jump in driving over them.
1643. Horn & Robotham, Gate Lang. Unl., xlii. § 453. A trotter jotteth [marg. shaketh] the rider.
a. 1825. Forby, Voc. E. Anglia, Jot, Jotter, to jolt roughly.
