Meaning

A young male horse..

Definitions by Sense

1. A young male horse.
2. A young crane (bird).
3. (figuratively) A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
4. (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.
7. (obsolete, transitive) To horse; to get with young.
8. (obsolete, transitive) To befool.

Example Sentences

The petty vices of boys are like the innocent kicks of colts, as yet imperfectly broken.

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.

Never talk on't: / She hath been colted by him.

What a plague mean ye to colt me thus?

They shook off their bridles and began to colt.

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.

Word Forms

• colts
• colting
• colted

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