Also joulter. App. a variant of JOWTER, a hawker, pedlar.
Perhaps only an individualism of the writers; the form is not in E. D. Dict. and the word not cited from Ireland.
1841. S. C. Hall, Ireland, II. 157. A jolter, a man selling oysters, brooms and sundries, was as welcome to the servants’ hall, as a pedlar with shawls and laces to the drawing room.
1845. Mrs. S. C. Hall, Whiteboy, x. 85. The widdy sould them [ducks] to a Cork joulter for eightpence a couple.
