Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

We were jarred and bounced over the rough road until we entered a clearing where a small weather-grayed house stood and fields stretched barren beyond it.

Based on the sentence above, what is the meaning of jarred? What context clues does Mildred Taylor give the reader?

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Their bodies were bounced around and stiff from the bumpy road.

Jarred: send a painful or damaging shock through (something, especially a part of the body).

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