Colt

Pronunciation

• RP IPA: /kəʊlt/, /kɔʊlt/
• US IPA: /koÊŠlt/
• also IPA: /klÌ©t/
• Homophones: cult
• Rhymes: -əʊlt

Full definition of colt

Noun

1. A young male horse.
2. A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
• 1594, William Shakespeare, , I. ii. 38: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.
3. (nautical) A short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment.

Derived terms

• colt's tooth

Verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To horse; to get with young.
• 1610, William Shakespeare, , II. iv. 133:Never talk on't:
  She hath been colted by him.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To befool.
• 1594, William Shakespeare, , II. ii. 36:What a plague mean ye to colt me thus?
3. To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.
• SpenserThey shook off their bridles and began to colt.

Anagrams

• clot