colt

See also colț

English

Wikipedia

A mare and colt.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -əʊlt

Noun

colt (plural colts)

1. A young male horse
2. A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice
3. (nautical) A short piece of rope once used by petty officers to urge men to work

Derived terms

• colt's tooth

Translations

young male horse

• Albanian: mëz (sq)
• Armenian: մտրուկ (hy) (mtruk), քուռակ (hy) (k’urak)
• Aromanian: mãndzu (rup)
• Bulgarian: жребче (bg) (žrebče) m
• Catalan: poltre m
• Chinese: 駒 (jū)
• Czech: hříbě (cs) n
• Dutch: hengstveulen (nl) n
• Faroese: koltur (fo) n
• Finnish: varsa, orivarsa
• French: poulain (fr) m
• German: Hengstfohlen (de) n, männliches Fohlen (de) n, Hengstfüllen (de) n, männliches Füllen (de) n
• Irish: bromach (ga) m
• Italian: puledro (it) m
• Latgalian: kumeļs m
• Latin: equuleus (la) m
• Latvian: kumeļš (lv) m

• Lithuanian: kumeliukas m
• Macedonian: ждребе n
• Maltese: mohor m, felu m
• Navajo: łéʼéyázhí
• Norwegian: hingstføll (no) n
• Polish: źrebak (pl) m
• Romanian: mânz (ro) m
• Russian: жеребёнок (ru) (žerebjónok) m, жеребчик (ru) (žerebčik) m
• Scottish Gaelic: capall m, bromach m, loth f, lothag f, searrach m, biorach(-eich) m
• Slovene: žrebe (sl) n
• Spanish: potranco m, potro m
• Taos: kòw’ȕ’úna
• Turkish: tay (tr)
• Ukrainian: лоша (uk) (loshá) n
• Volapük: (♂♀) jevodül (vo), (♂) hijevodül (vo), (♀) jijevodül (vo)
• Wolof: mol mi (wo)

novice

• French: jeunot (fr) m

rope

• Russian: линёк (ru) (linjók) m

See also

• stallion, mare, foal, filly, horseling

Verb

colt (third-person singular simple present colts, present participle colting, simple past and past participle colted)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To horse; to get with young.

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2. (obsolete, transitive) To befool.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Anagrams

• clot