Colt
[kəʊlt] or [kolt]
Definition
(noun.) a young male horse under the age of four.
(noun.) a kind of revolver.
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Definition
(n.) The young of the equine genus or horse kind of animals; -- sometimes distinctively applied to the male, filly being the female. Cf. Foal.
(n.) A young, foolish fellow.
(n.) A short knotted rope formerly used as an instrument of punishment in the navy.
(v. i.) To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.
(v. t.) To horse; to get with young.
(v. t.) To befool.
Edited by Janet
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Young horse (male or female).
Editor: Xenia
Definition
n. a young horse: an awkward fellow: an inexperienced youth: (B.) a young camel or ass: (naut.) a rope's end.—v.i. (Spens.) to frisk like a colt.—v.t. (Shak.) to cheat: to give the rope's end to beat.—adj. Colt′ish like a colt: frisky: wanton.—ns. Colt's′-foot a composite plant with large soft leaves once used for asthma and coughing; Colt's′-tooth one of a horse's first set of teeth; (Shak.) love of youthful pleasures: wantonness.
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Examples
- Then suddenly pointing to a weather-vane on the freight depot, he pulled out a Colt revolver and fired through the window, hitting the vane. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- With one of these in his fingers, Sam approached the colt, stroked and patted, and seemed apparently busy in soothing his agitation. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The Colt pistol had appeared before this date. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- What put Colt on his feet again was the Mexican war a few years later. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Nor was Colonel Colt much more successful in his earlier attempts to bring his Revolver into public notice. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Samuel Colt was patented February 25, 1836, (re-issue No. 124, October 24, 1848), and again August 29, 1839, No. 1,304; September 3, 1850, No. 7,613, and September 10, 1850, No. 7,629. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- As he told the story, there was a Mr. Ralston living within a few miles of the village, who owned a colt which I very much wanted. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He was in a great state of mind at that, and mounting the colt, who stood by him through thick and thin, rushed to the castle to see which was left. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Plato said that Aristotle reacted against his instructo r as a vigorous colt kicks the mother that nourishes it. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- She moved awkwardly as a colt moves, but with that same grace as of a young animal. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I'll go right in the house, for paper and ink; and then, you know, Aunt Chloe, I can tell about the new colts and all. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- They have no fondness for their colts or foals, but the care they take in educating them proceeds entirely from the dictates of reason. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- And her pleasure was to ride the young colts, and to scour the plains like Camilla. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Why, my boys have been to Cincinnati, with five hundred dollars' worth of colts, and brought me back the money, all straight, time and agin. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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