colt
Meanings
Plural: colts
Noun
- a young male horse under the age of four
- a kind of revolver
- A young male horse.
- A young crane (bird).
- A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
- A professional cricketer during his first season.
- A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
- A person who sits as a juryman for the first time.
- A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
- A short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment.
- A weapon formed by slinging a small shot to the end of a somewhat stiff piece of rope.
- A young camel or donkey.
Verb
- To horse; to get with young.
- To befool.
- To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.
- 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.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English colt, from Old English colt, from Proto-Germanic *kultaz (“plump; stump; thick shape, bulb”), from Proto-Indo-European *gelt- (“something round, pregnant belly, child in the womb”), from *gel- (“to ball up, amass”). Cognate with Faroese koltur (“colt, foal”) Norwegian kult (“treestump”), Swedish kult (“young boar, boy, lad”). Related to child.
Synonyms
Scrabble Score: 6
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Words With Friends Score: 8
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