joculator

noun

joculator

noun

Etymology From Latin joculātus. Doublet of juggler and jongleur.

1

Obsolete A jester; a joker.

The joculators were sometimes excellent tumblers; yet, generally speaking, I believe that vaulting, tumbling, and balancing, were not exectued by the chieftan of the gleeman's company, but by some of his confederates1801, Joseph Strutt, The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England:

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