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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A young male horse.
  2. n. A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. 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. In the Bible it is applied to a young camel and to a young ass. In sporting, a thoroughbred colt becomes a horse at five years old, others at four years.
  2. n. A person new to office or to the exercise of any art; a green hand: as, a team of colts at cricket.
  3. n. A cheat; a slippery fellow.
  4. n. A rope's end used for punishment; also, a piece of rope with something heavy at the end used as a weapon.
  5. n. The second after-swarm of bees.
  6. n. Synonyms Filly, etc. See pony.
  7. To frisk, frolic, or run at large, like a colt.
  8. [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.
  9. To befool; fool.
  10. To beat with a rope's end. See colt, n., 4.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A young male horse
  2. n. A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice
  3. n. nautical A short piece of rope once used by petty officers to urge men to work
  4. v. obsolete, transitive To horse; to get with young.
  5. v. obsolete, transitive To befool.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The young of the equine genus or horse kind of animals; -- sometimes distinctively applied to the male, filly being the female. Cf. foal.
  2. n. A young, foolish fellow.
  3. n. A short knotted rope formerly used as an instrument of punishment in the navy.
  4. v. obsolete To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.
  5. v. To horse; to get with young.
  6. v. obsolete To befool.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a kind of revolver
  2. n. a young male horse under the age of four

Etymologies

  1. Middle English, from Old English. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (7)

Words with the same meaning

  1. horse
  1. befool
  1. offspring
  1. foal
  1. youngster
  1. patron
  1. filly

antonyms (1)

Words with the opposite meaning

  1. filly

hypernyms (3)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. six-shooter
  1. six-gun
  1. revolver

same context (23)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. stallion
  2. foal
  3. filly
  4. calve
  1. pony
  2. mare
  3. heifer
  4. ox
  1. lamb
  2. cow
  3. steed
  4. bull
  1. kitten
  2. charger
  3. pup
  4. ristorante
  1. cub
  2. puppy
  3. deer
  4. steer
  1. hog
  2. bullock
  3. rabbit

rhymes (9)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Bolt
  1. Holt
  1. bolt
  1. holt
  1. jolt
  1. molt
  1. nolt
  1. revolt
  1. volt

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. Colt
  2. ridgel
  3. ridgeling
  4. ridgil
  5. ridgling
  6. filly
  7. colt's tooth
  1. kicking-horses
  2. colt
  3. bull's-foot
  4. colt-like
  5. woods colt
  6. catch colt
  7. old-field colt
  1. hogget
  2. coltish
  3. colt pistol
  4. colt revolver
  5. uncolt
  6. coltskin
  7. leggy
  1. coltishly
  2. cowt
  3. foal
  4. halter-break
  5. hog-colt
  6. horse-colt
  7. tussilago farfara
  1. bay
  2. coltsfoot
  3. stag
  4. young one
  5. gentle
  6. grass
  7. hog
  1. rising
  2. scratch

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  1. nautical
  1. animal
  1. historical

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  • ruzuzu "6. The second after-swarm of bees." --Cent. Dict. May 7, 2011

  • chained_bear "One of the favorites aboard Somers was the relatively tame whip called the colt, also known as the starter. This was a short, thick rope, which stung a lot less than the cat. It was used through the shirt, and not on bare skin, which reduced the sting further. But it was painful enough...."
    —Buckner F. Melton, Jr., A Hanging Offense: The Strange Affair of the Warship Somers (New York and London: Free Press, 2003), 71 Apr 25, 2009

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