colt
IPA: kˈoʊɫt
noun
- A young male horse.
- A young crane (bird).
- (figuratively) A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
- (cricket, slang) A professional cricketer during his first season.
- (nautical) A short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment.
- (biblical) A young camel or donkey.
- A surname originating as an occupation.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- A revolver (gun) (from Colt's Manufacturing Company), associated especially but not exclusively with the American Wild West.
verb
- (obsolete, transitive) To horse; to get with young.
- (obsolete, transitive) To befool.
- (intransitive) To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.
- (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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Examples of "colt" in Sentences
- Colt would make a great playmate.
- The colt is gazing a grass in the field.
- He started showing as a yearling colt in 1986.
- By the time the colt was a yearling, he was still unnamed.
- The barony was one of the former possessions of the Colt family.
- As well the lock on a colt is a smother than the lock of a remington.
- At the least Burt Colt is the moniker given to the uncredited comic artist.
- The mascot is the Cottonwood Colt, and the school colors are black and gold.
- After this was discovered, the colt was sidelined for the rest of the season.
- An ordinance forbade any habitant to possess more than two mares and one colt.