colt
(noun) a young male horse under the age of four
Colt
(noun) a kind of revolver
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Colt (plural Colts)
A surname.
A male given name from surnames.
Colt (plural Colts)
A revolver (gun) (from Colt's Manufacturing Company), associated especially but not exclusively with the American Wild West.
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colt (plural colts)
A young male horse.
Coordinate term: filly
A young crane (bird).
(figuratively) A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
(nautical) A short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment.
(biblical) A young camel or donkey.
colt (third-person singular simple present colts, present participle colting, simple past and past participle colted)
(obsolete, transitive) To horse; to get with young.
(obsolete, transitive) To befool.
To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.
• (to act licentiously or wantonly): See harlotize
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Source: Wiktionary
Colt (; 110), n. Etym: [OE. colt a young horse, ass, or camel, AS. colt; cf. dial. Sw. kullt a boy, lad.]
1. The young of the equine genus or horse kind of animals; -- sometimes distinctively applied to the male, filly being the female. Cf. Foal.
Note: In sporting circles it is usual to reckon the age of colts from some arbitrary date, as from January 1, or May 1, next preceding the birth of the animal.
2. A young, foolish fellow. Shak.
3. A short knotted rope formerly used as an instrument of punishment in the navy. Ham. Nav. Encyc. Colt's tooth, an imperfect or superfluous tooth in young horses.
– To cast one's colt's tooth, to cease from youthful wantonness. "Your colt's tooth is not cast yet." Shak.
– To have a colt's tooth, to be wanton. Chaucer.
Colt (; 110), v. i.
Definition: To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly. [Obs.] They shook off their bridles and began to colt. Spenser.
Colt, v. t.
1. To horse; to get with young. Shak.
2. To befool. [Obs.] Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
12 June 2025
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