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Vinony

colt

noun

  1. male horse, usually below the age of four years
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /kəʊlt/ / [kɔʊlt] / /kɒlt/

name

Etymology: From colt, as a nickname or occupational name for someone who looked after horses and asses. The given name may also be short for Colton. The revolver is named after American inventor Samuel Colt (1814–1862).

  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.

noun

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. 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.
  6. A short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment.
  7. A weapon formed by slinging a small shot to the end of a somewhat stiff piece of rope.
  8. A young camel or donkey.

verb

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. 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.”