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colt

noun
/kəʊlt/UK/koʊlt/US

Etymology

From Middle English colt, from Old English colt, from Proto-Germanic *kultaz (“plump; stump; thick shape, bulb”), from Proto-Indo-European *gelt- (“something round, pregnant belly, child in the womb”), from *gel- (“to ball up, amass”). Cognate with Faroese koltur (“colt, foal”) Norwegian kult (“treestump”), Swedish kult (“young boar, piglet, boy, lad”) / Swedish kulting (“piglet”). Related to child.

  1. derived from *gelt-✻
  2. derived from *kultaz✻
  3. inherited from colt
  4. inherited from colt

Definitions

  1. A young male horse.

    • The petty vices of boys are like the innocent kicks of colts, as yet imperfectly broken.

  2. A young crane (bird).

  3. A youthful or inexperienced person

    A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.

    • Ay, that's a colt indeed, for he doth nothing but / talk of his horse, and he makes it a great appropriation to / his own good parts that he can shoe him himself.
  4. ›+ 12 more definitions

    1. A short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment.

    2. A weapon formed by slinging a small shot to the end of a somewhat stiff piece of rope.

    3. A young camel or donkey.

    4. To horse

      To horse; to get with young.

      • Never talk on't: / She hath been colted by him.

    5. To befool.

      • What a plague mean ye to colt me thus?

    6. To frisk or frolic like a colt

      To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.

      • They shook off their bridles and began to colt.

    7. To haze (a new recruit), as by charging a new juryman a "fine" to be spent on alcoholic…

      To haze (a new recruit), as by charging a new juryman a "fine" to be spent on alcoholic drink, or by striking the sole of his foot with a board, etc.

      • We watched our opportunity, seized him, and, laying him across a chest, we colted him with a boot-jack until we nearly killed him, he at the time suffering from numerous boils in the nates; and for all this he obtained no redress!
      • […] his first appearance the jury duly "colted" him.

    8. A surname originating as an occupation.

    9. A male given name transferred from the surname.

      • It took two years for Colt and his extended family to find the ideal land on which to spend the rest of their lives.

    10. A town in St. Francis County, Arkansas, United States.

    11. An unincorporated community in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States.

    12. A revolver (gun) (from Colt's Manufacturing Company), associated especially but not…

      A revolver (gun) (from Colt's Manufacturing Company), associated especially but not exclusively with the American Wild West.

      • Only in it she held a derringer in her hand, not a Colt. But that look of disbelief on Leonard's face could not have been more real.

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Derived

catch colt, colt evil, colthood, coltish, coltlike, coltsfoot, coltskin, colt's tooth, hog colt, old-field colt, summer colt, uncolt, uncolted, woods colt

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA