colt

noun · verbA1

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noun

Plural noun:

colts

1.
A young male horse.
2.
A young crane (bird).
3.
(figuratively)A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
4.
(historical)(nautical, historical) A short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment.
5.
(obsolete, slang)A weapon formed by slinging a small shot to the end of a somewhat stiff piece of rope.
6.
(biblical) A young camel or donkey.

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verb

V_es/s

colts

V_ing/Gerund

colting

V_ed/pp

colted

1.
(obsolete, transitive)To horse; to get with young.
2.
(obsolete, transitive)To befool.
3.
(intransitive)To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.
4.
(obsolete, slang, transitive)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.

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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 koltur kult treestump, kult / kulting piglet. Related to child.