Colt

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A young male horse.
  • n. A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A young male horse
  • n. A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice
  • n. A short piece of rope once used by petty officers to urge men to work
  • v. To horse; to get with young.
  • v. To befool.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
  • verb-intransitive. To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.
  • v. To horse; to get with young.
  • v. To befool.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A young horse, or a young animal of the horse tribe: commonly and distinctively applied to the male, the young female being a filly.
  • n. A person new to office or to the exercise of any art; a green hand: as, a team of colts at cricket.
  • n. A cheat; a slippery fellow.
  • n. A rope's end used for punishment; also, a piece of rope with something heavy at the end used as a weapon.
  • n. The second after-swarm of bees.
  • n. Synonyms Filly, etc. See pony.
  • To frisk, frolic, or run at large, like a colt.
  • [Cf. calve, v., 2, and cave, verb, II., 2.] To become detached, as a mass of earth from a bank or excavation; cave: with in.
  • To befool; fool.
  • To beat with a rope's end. See colt, n., 4.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a kind of revolver
  • n. a young male horse under the age of four
  • Antonym
    filly   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    six-shooter    six-gun    revolver   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    foal   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    horse    befool    offspring    foal    youngster    patron    filly   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bolt    Holt    bolt    holt    jolt    molt    nolt    revolt    volt   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    stallion    foal    filly    calve    pony    mare    heifer    ox    lamb    cow