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colt
UK /kəʊlt/ US /koʊlt/
noun 6verb 4name 4
Collocations
4ADJ.
able, best, extended, mean, wildest
VERB + COLT
began, fed, hand, rode, stroked
PREP.
on
ADV.
filly, finally, indeed, thus
Definitions
noun
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 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
A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
The bowling is more promising in the colts than in the eleven.
5
A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
verb
1
To horse; to get with young.
Never talk on't: / She hath been colted by him.
2
To befool.
What a plague mean ye to colt me thus?
3
To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.
They shook off their bridles and began to colt.
4
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.
name
1
A surname originating as an occupation.
2
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.
3
A town in St. Francis County, Arkansas, United States.
4
An unincorporated community in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States.
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Example Bank
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The petty vices of boys are like the innocent kicks of colts, as yet imperfectly broken.
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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.
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The bowling is more promising in the colts than in the eleven.
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Never talk on't: / She hath been colted by him.
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What a plague mean ye to colt me thus?
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They shook off their bridles and began to colt.
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