colt

Meanings

1. A young male horse.
2. A young crane (bird).
3. A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
4. A professional cricketer during his first season.
5. A person who sits as a juryman for the first time.
6. A short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment.
7. A weapon formed by slinging a small shot to the end of a somewhat stiff piece of rope.
8. A young camel or donkey.

1. To horse; to get with young.
2. To befool.
3. To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.
4. 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.

1. A surname originating as an occupation.
2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
3. A town in St. Francis County, Arkansas, United States.
4. An unincorporated community in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States.

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

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, piglet, boy, lad”) / Swedish kulting (“piglet”). Related to child.

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