Coltname

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  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.
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  A placename:

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  A placename:

Coltnoun

• 1

  A revolver (gun) (from Colt's Manufacturing Company), associated especially but not exclusively with the American Wild West.

  • He shaved and managed to pull on a clean shirt and trousers. He put a fresh clip in his Beretta and wrapped the Colt in his discarded shirt and put it in his suitcase.
  • Only in it she held a derringer in her hand, not a Colt. But that look of disbelief on Leonard's face could not have been more real.

coltnoun/kəʊlt/

• 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

  slangball-gamescricketgamesA youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.

  • The bowling is more promising in the colts than in the eleven.
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  obsoleteslangA youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.

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  historicalnauticaltransportA short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment.

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  obsoleteslangA weapon formed by slinging a small shot to the end of a somewhat stiff piece of rope.

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  biblicallifestylereligionA young camel or donkey.

coltverb/kəʊlt/

• 1

  obsoleteTo horse; to get with young.

  • Never talk on't: / She hath been colted by him.
• 2

  obsoleteTo befool.

  • What a plague mean ye to colt me thus?
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  To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.

  • They shook off their bridles and began to colt.
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  obsoleteslangTo 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.