coltn.¹

Brit.

/kəʊlt/, U.S.

/koʊlt/

Forms: Also Middle English–1500s colte, Middle English collt, kowlt, 1500s–1600s coult, 1600s coalt, 1800s dialect cowt, cout.

Etymology: Old English colt , applied to the young ass and young camel (see quot. c1000 at sense 1); of obscure origin. Compare Swedish dialect kult pig, hardy boy, also Swedish kull, Dutch kuld, brood, family, Swedish kulter, kulting, Danish koltring big lad; no related words appear in Icelandic.

1. The young of the horse, or of animals of the horse kind. In Scripture applied also to the young of the camel.The sense ‘young ass’ is now perhaps only dialectal. While the young of the horse is still with the dam it is usually called a foal; afterwards the young horse is a colt to the age of 4, or in the case of a thoroughbred, 5 years, while the young mare is a filly. On Dartmoor the name is used to include ponies or moorland horses generally.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by gender or age > [noun] > male > colt

coltc1000

horse-colta1382

poleync1445

staggy1786

staggeen1829

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > family Camelidae (camel) > [noun] > young

foala1398

colt1611

c1000 Ælfric Genesis xxxii. 15 Þritig gefolra olfend myrena mid heora coltum..and xx ass myrena mid heora tyn coltun.

c1290 Lives Saints Laud MS. (1887) 482 Wilde coltes and strongue.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. xli. 1190 While he is a colte he may touche his heed wiþ his hynder foot.

1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 58 There sawe we goo a rede mare, And she had a black colte or a fool of iiij monethis olde.

1611 Bible (King James) Gen. xxxii. 15 Thirtie milch camels with their colts..twenty shee asses, and ten foales.

1611 Bible (King James) John xii. 15 Behold, thy King commeth, sitting on an asses colt .

1632 R. Sanderson 12 Serm. 366 Like an vnruly coult that will ouer hedge and ditch.

1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum Colt, a young Horse, Mare or Ass.

1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 275 At two years old, the colt, if for harness, may be put to plough or harrow.

1887 W. F. Collier Venville Rights on Dartmoor 6 in Trans. Devonshire Assoc. XIX A messenger is sent very early in the morning..to the moorman of a quarter, ordering him to drive his quarter, say for ponies, or colts, as they are called in drift language.

figurative.1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 2nd Pt. sig. I8^v Nay, we wil break the hedges of their mouths And pul their kicking colts out of their pastures.

2. figurative (mostly humorous or slang). Applied to persons having the characteristics of a colt:

a. A young or inexperienced person, a ‘green hand’; now in Sport (originally Cricket), a young or inexperienced player; a member of a junior team; (also in plural) the team itself; dialect an awkward young person who needs to be broken in.

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the world > people > person > young person > [noun] > young and inexperienced person

colta1225

chicken1691

hopeful1720

pup1887

society > leisure > sport > player or sportsperson > [noun] > team or group > types of

twelve1573

county1729

colt1789

in1825

Big-side1845

offence1884

all-American1888

farm1896

farm club1896

farm team1896

dream team1911

skin1930

A-team1976

society > leisure > sport > player or sportsperson > [noun] > other players

server1585

free agent1649

benchwarmer1662

puncher1681

sticker1779

hard hitter1790

hitter1813

go-devil1835

beneficiaire1841

colt1846

heavyweight1857

stayer1862

left-hander1864

attack1869

cap1879

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roadman1886

big leaguer1887

homester1887

sand lotter1887

badger1890

internationalist1892

repeater1893

anchorman1895

grandstander1896

stylist1897

homebrew1903

letterman1905

toss-loser1906

fouler1908

rookie1908

mudder1912

sharpshooter1912

pro-amateur1919

receiver1919

southpaw1925

freestyler1927

hotshot1927

active1931

all-timer1936

iceman1936

wild card1940

scrambler1954

rounder1955

franchise1957

call-up1960

trialist1960

non-import1964

sandbagger1965

rebel1982

wide-body1986

a1225 Juliana 54 Euer beo acurset colt of swuch cunde.

1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. ii. 39 Thats a colt indeede, for he doth nothing but talke of his horse.

1665 J. Webb Vindic. Stone-Heng (1725) 56 Every Colt in Masonry assigns the Weight of a Stone by Measure.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Colt..also a Lad newly bound Prentice.

1789 in F. Lillywhite's Cricket Scores & Biogr. Cricketers (1862) I. 90 [A Grand Cricket Match..between the Earl of Winchelsea with the] Colts of [Surry and A. Smith, Esq., with the] Colts [of Hants].

1846 W. Denison Cricket: Sketches of Players 19 Edward Bushby..was regarded as the most promising ‘colt’, who had come out for several years.

1858 E. Waugh Chirrup Young Chirrup wur a mettled cowt.

1873 Slang Dict. Colt, a person who sits as juryman for the first time.

1873 Slang Dict. Colt, a professional cricketer during his first season.

1931 Daily Express 18 Mar. 16/2 They entered their colts' team for the Birmingham League this season. This team is composed mainly of lads all keen on making a name for themselves.

1976 Leicester Mercury 14 Oct. 46/4 Young John Barradel dropping down to the colts where he hopes to make his mark at representative level this season.

1986 Rugby Internat. July 6/3 The RFU will expect clubs promoted to higher leagues to..run a colts team.

b. A lively or spirited person.

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the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [noun] > vigour or liveliness > vigorous or lively person

colt1723

lively1798

snorter1846

dog1909

the mind > emotion > excitement > excitability of temperament > spiritedness or liveliness > [noun] > person

colt1723

1594 T. Lodge & R. Greene Looking Glasse sig. B^v Come on, in faith my colts.

1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 247 She was, a wild untam'd Colt.

1850 Ld. Tennyson Princess (ed. 3) v. 125 She's yet a colt—Take, break her.

†c. A lascivious fellow, a wanton. Obsolete.

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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > [noun] > person > male

franion1571

Corinthian1575

colt1584

libertine1584

tit1601

night-sneaker1611

highboy1667

man of the town1671

town bull1709

gay deceiver1710

Lothario1756

playboy1829

gay dog1847

girlie-man1897

lizard1935

player1968

mack daddy1991

1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health ccxlii. 253 The surest remedie that can be deuised for Cupids colts.

d. transferred. Coltish nature (cf. beast n. 7b).

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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > [noun] > animal sensuality > animal nature in man

beast1615

colt1727

brute1787

1727 C. Threlkeld Synopsis Stirpium Hibernicarum B v [A birch rod] to drive the Colt out of the man.

†3. A cunning fellow, a cheat. Obsolete. rare. (Cf. colt v. 2.)

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun] > one who deceives

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wielerOE

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troker?a1500

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bobber1542

cloyner?1550

illuder?1550

tricker1550

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treacherer1571

falsary1573

abuser1579

falser1579

treachetour1590

deluder1592

ignis fatuus1592

foolmonger1593

prestigiator1595

aguiler1598

baffler1606

cog-foist1606

feaguer1610

guile-man1614

hocus-pocus1624

colt1632

hoodwink1638

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napper1653

cheat1664

fooler1677

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chincher1688

dodger1698

nickum1699

sheep-shearer1699

trickster1711

bilker1717

trickologist1723

taker-in1776

bilk1790

duper1792

Yorkshire bite1801

intake1808

gammoner1819

doer1840

delusionist1841

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hoodwinker1884

tanger1886

take-down1888

tiddlywinker1893

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lurkman1945

jive-ass1964

skanker1973

1632 R. Sanderson 12 Serm. 197 An old tricke, by which C. Verres like a cunning Coult often holpe himselfe at a pinch.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Colt, an Inn-keeper that lends a Horse to a Highway-man.

4. Legal slang. The barrister that attended on a serjeant-at-law at his induction.

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society > law > legal profession > lawyer > [noun] > counsellor, barrister, or advocate > serjeant > barrister attending at induction of

colt1765

1765 W. Wynne Observ. Degree Serj. at Law 102 Then Mr. Bailey, his colt, delivered his rings to the Lord Chancellor.

1843 F. Pollock Remembrances (1887) I. 212 In April I accompanied the newly made Chief Baron as his Colt.

1889 B. C. Robinson Bench & Bar The colt..walks in [pone] behind his principal, and it is said that the term ‘colt’ is merely a parody on that Latin word.

a. Nautical. A piece of rope used as an instrument of chastisement.

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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [noun] > rope

rope's enda1475

rope-end1583

salt eel1622

colt1780

teaser1910

1780 Falconer's Universal Dict. Marine (rev. ed.) App. Bouts de corde, a cat of nine tails, colt or rope's end for punishment.

1830 F. Marryat King's Own I. viii. 113 He always carried in his pocket a colt (i.e., a foot and a half of rope, knotted at one end, and whipped at the other) for the benefit of the youngsters.

1869 E. Yates Wrecked in Port III. v. 111 A cabin-boy, about to receive the punishment of the ‘colt’ from the mate.

b. slang. A piece of rope with something heavy fastened to the end, used as a weapon.

ΚΠ

1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 126 Colt, a murderous weapon, formed by slinging a small shot to the end of a rather stiff piece of rope.

6. A third swarm of bees in the season.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > swarm of bees > third of season

colt1742

spindle1825

1742 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman June xvi. 182 The Swarm is the first and greatest Number, the Cast is the next greatest, the Colt the next, and the Spew the least of all.

†7. The plant Lepidium latifolium, otherwise called Dittany. Obsolete.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Cruciferae (crucifers) > [noun] > cress

cressa700

pepperworta1500

dittany1548

sciatica cress1562

way-cresses1562

churl's cress1578

churl's mustard1578

dittander1578

cockweed1585

colt1585

green mustard1597

peasant's mustard1597

sciatica grass1597

scar-wort1657

yellow-seed1818

money tree1934

1585 H. Llwyd tr. Pope John XXI Treasury of Health (new ed.) sig. G ij Colt or detin plasterid vpon the goute, and disese called sciatica, healyth the same.

8. colt's tooth n.

a. literal. One of the first set of teeth of a horse (or ass).

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > [noun] > equus asinus (ass) > parts of

ass-ear?c1225

colt's tooth1607

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > mouth or type of > teeth > first set of teeth

colt's tooth1607

foal-teeth1696

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 561 If they [sc. asses] doe not breed..before the casting of theyr Colts-teeth, they remaine steril..al their life.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §754 Horses have, at three years old..the Colts-tooth.

1689 London Gaz. No. 2421/4 A brown bay Gelding..with Colts Teeth in his Head.

b. figurative. Youthful tastes or desires; inclination to wantonness: in certain phrases.

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the world > people > person > young person > [noun] > characteristics of young person

colt's toothc1386

juvenilities1661

youthfullity1763

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > [noun] > of a man > young

colt's toothc1386

c1386 G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Prol. 602 But yit I had alway a coltis tothe.

c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Reeve's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) Prol. l. 34 And yet I haue alwey a coltes tooth.

1588 R. Greene Perimedes sig. H2^v Hee hath beene a wag, but nowe age hath pluckt out all his Coltes teeth.

1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII i. iii. 48 Well said Lord Sands, Your Colts tooth is not cast yet?

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 151. About Sixty, which generally produces a Kind of latter Spring in amorous Constitutions, my Aunt Margery had again a Colt's-Tooth in her Head.

1800 J. Wolcot Ld. Auckland's Triumph in Wks. (1812) IV. 317 His Majesty..Had a Colt's tooth and loved another Dame.

1841 J. T. J. Hewlett Parish Clerk I. 81 They not shedding their colt's teeth yet.

Compounds

†colt-bridle, colt-like adj.; colt-drift n. the drift of ‘colts’ or ponies on Dartmoor (see drift n.). †colt-herb n. Obsolete,† †colt's-hoof n. Obsolete = coltsfoot n. See also colt-evil n., coltsfoot n., colt's tail n.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > coltsfoot

horse-hoof1398

foalfoota1400

wowellc1450

Tussilago1510

coltsfoot1552

bull-foot1562

colt's-hoof1565–73

colt-herb1587

coughwort1597

horse-foot1597

flap-dock1846

clay-weed1878

1483 Cath. Angl. 72 A Colte brydylle, lupatum.

1565–73 T. Cooper Thesaurus Chamæluce, the herbe called coltes hoofe..with a broad leafe like a poplar.

1587 L. Mascall First Bk. Cattell (Britten & H.) Colt-herb.

1842 Ld. Tennyson St. Simeon Stylites in Poems (new ed.) II. 61 With colt-like whinny and with hoggish whine.

1885 Sat. Rev. 5 Sept. 322 Some..remnants of authority still left..of the old Forest laws, amongst which is the colt-drift, the ponies being locally called colts.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

coltv.

Brit.

/kəʊlt/, U.S.

/koʊlt/

Etymology: < colt n.¹

†1. intransitive. To frisk or run wild as a colt (usually implying wantonness). Obsolete. rare.

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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > be licentious [verb (intransitive)] > act or behave

ragea1400

to play the wanton1529

to play the wanton's part1529

ramp1530

wanton1589

wantonize1592

colta1599

wantonize1611

lasciviate1628

to shake a loose (also free) leg1743

Corinthianize1810

playboy1950

a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 5 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) Shooke off their bridles, and beganne to colte anew, more licentiously then before.

1746 Exmoor Scolding (ed. 3) i. 5 A colting Hobbey-horse [said of a woman].

†2. transitive. To befool, cheat, ‘take in’. Obsolete.

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > duping, making a fool of > befool, cheat, dupe [verb (transitive)]

belirtOE

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coaxc1679

dupe1704

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oxify1804

tomfool1835

sammyfoozle1837

trail1847

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pigwidgeon1852

green1853

con1896

rib1912

shuck1959

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 935 There was Cicero finely colted, as old as he was, by a young man.

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. ii. 37 Falst. What a plague meane ye to colt me thus? Prin. Thou liest, thou art not colted, thou art vncolted.

a1625 J. Fletcher Loyal Subj. iii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Eee2/1 What, are we bob'd thus still, colted, and carted?

a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Little French Lawyer ii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. H4v/2 Am I thus Colted?

†3. (See quot. a1616.)

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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity with [verb (transitive)] > mount (a partner) for purpose of sexual intercourse

ridea1450

mounta1475

beleap1513

leap1530

colta1616

vaulta1616

rut1700

a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) ii. iv. 133 She hath bin colted by him.

†4. Of bees: To throw off a ‘colt’ or third swarm. Obsolete.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [verb (intransitive)] > throw off a third swarm

colt1745

1745 W. Ellis Agric. Improv'd I. June xvi. 115 Bees will sometimes (but rarely) swarm, cast, colt, and spew, from one and the same old Stock of Bees in one Summer.

5. transitive. To beat with a ‘colt’ (see colt n.¹ 5).

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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > administer corporal punishment [verb (transitive)] > with rope

rope-end1583

colt1732

start1802

rope's-end1803

rope-end1833

1732 Derby Mercury I. No. 21 A parcel of Nailers..seizing upon a poor young Fellow colted him up to Kilmainham.

1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy I. xii. 180 He colted me for half an hour.

6. intransitive. To fall or ‘cave’ in, as a bank of earth; to collapse, give way. dialect. (Cf. colsh v.)[There is perhaps some association between calve v.¹ and colt thus used.]

ΚΠ

1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iii. 133 If the coal be full of rifts, it is so much the more apt to colt in upon the Workmen.

1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. viii. 306 [The earth]..suddenly coped or colted down upon him.

1884 R. Lawson Upton-on-Severn Words & Phrases Colt, to fall in, as the side of a grave or pit.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	colt
释义	coltn.¹ Brit. /kəʊlt/, U.S. /koʊlt/ Forms: Also Middle English–1500s colte, Middle English collt, kowlt, 1500s–1600s coult, 1600s coalt, 1800s dialect cowt, cout. Etymology: Old English colt , applied to the young ass and young camel (see quot. c1000 at sense 1); of obscure origin. Compare Swedish dialect kult pig, hardy boy, also Swedish kull, Dutch kuld, brood, family, Swedish kulter, kulting, Danish koltring big lad; no related words appear in Icelandic. 1. The young of the horse, or of animals of the horse kind. In Scripture applied also to the young of the camel.The sense ‘young ass’ is now perhaps only dialectal. While the young of the horse is still with the dam it is usually called a foal; afterwards the young horse is a colt to the age of 4, or in the case of a thoroughbred, 5 years, while the young mare is a filly. On Dartmoor the name is used to include ponies or moorland horses generally. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by gender or age > [noun] > male > colt coltc1000 horse-colta1382 poleync1445 staggy1786 staggeen1829 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > family Camelidae (camel) > [noun] > young foala1398 colt1611 c1000 Ælfric Genesis xxxii. 15 Þritig gefolra olfend myrena mid heora coltum..and xx ass myrena mid heora tyn coltun. c1290 Lives Saints Laud MS. (1887) 482 Wilde coltes and strongue. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. xli. 1190 While he is a colte he may touche his heed wiþ his hynder foot. 1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 58 There sawe we goo a rede mare, And she had a black colte or a fool of iiij monethis olde. 1611 Bible (King James) Gen. xxxii. 15 Thirtie milch camels with their colts..twenty shee asses, and ten foales. View more context for this quotation 1611 Bible (King James) John xii. 15 Behold, thy King commeth, sitting on an asses colt . View more context for this quotation 1632 R. Sanderson 12 Serm. 366 Like an vnruly coult that will ouer hedge and ditch. 1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum Colt, a young Horse, Mare or Ass. 1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 275 At two years old, the colt, if for harness, may be put to plough or harrow. 1887 W. F. Collier Venville Rights on Dartmoor 6 in Trans. Devonshire Assoc. XIX A messenger is sent very early in the morning..to the moorman of a quarter, ordering him to drive his quarter, say for ponies, or colts, as they are called in drift language. figurative.1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 2nd Pt. sig. I8^v Nay, we wil break the hedges of their mouths And pul their kicking colts out of their pastures. 2. figurative (mostly humorous or slang). Applied to persons having the characteristics of a colt: a. A young or inexperienced person, a ‘green hand’; now in Sport (originally Cricket), a young or inexperienced player; a member of a junior team; (also in plural) the team itself; dialect an awkward young person who needs to be broken in. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > young person > [noun] > young and inexperienced person colta1225 chicken1691 hopeful1720 pup1887 society > leisure > sport > player or sportsperson > [noun] > team or group > types of twelve1573 county1729 colt1789 in1825 Big-side1845 offence1884 all-American1888 farm1896 farm club1896 farm team1896 dream team1911 skin1930 A-team1976 society > leisure > sport > player or sportsperson > [noun] > other players server1585 free agent1649 benchwarmer1662 puncher1681 sticker1779 hard hitter1790 hitter1813 go-devil1835 beneficiaire1841 colt1846 heavyweight1857 stayer1862 left-hander1864 attack1869 cap1879 international1882 roadman1886 big leaguer1887 homester1887 sand lotter1887 badger1890 internationalist1892 repeater1893 anchorman1895 grandstander1896 stylist1897 homebrew1903 letterman1905 toss-loser1906 fouler1908 rookie1908 mudder1912 sharpshooter1912 pro-amateur1919 receiver1919 southpaw1925 freestyler1927 hotshot1927 active1931 all-timer1936 iceman1936 wild card1940 scrambler1954 rounder1955 franchise1957 call-up1960 trialist1960 non-import1964 sandbagger1965 rebel1982 wide-body1986 a1225 Juliana 54 Euer beo acurset colt of swuch cunde. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. ii. 39 Thats a colt indeede, for he doth nothing but talke of his horse. View more context for this quotation 1665 J. Webb Vindic. Stone-Heng (1725) 56 Every Colt in Masonry assigns the Weight of a Stone by Measure. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Colt..also a Lad newly bound Prentice. 1789 in F. Lillywhite's Cricket Scores & Biogr. Cricketers (1862) I. 90 [A Grand Cricket Match..between the Earl of Winchelsea with the] Colts of [Surry and A. Smith, Esq., with the] Colts [of Hants]. 1846 W. Denison Cricket: Sketches of Players 19 Edward Bushby..was regarded as the most promising ‘colt’, who had come out for several years. 1858 E. Waugh Chirrup Young Chirrup wur a mettled cowt. 1873 Slang Dict. Colt, a person who sits as juryman for the first time. 1873 Slang Dict. Colt, a professional cricketer during his first season. 1931 Daily Express 18 Mar. 16/2 They entered their colts' team for the Birmingham League this season. This team is composed mainly of lads all keen on making a name for themselves. 1976 Leicester Mercury 14 Oct. 46/4 Young John Barradel dropping down to the colts where he hopes to make his mark at representative level this season. 1986 Rugby Internat. July 6/3 The RFU will expect clubs promoted to higher leagues to..run a colts team. b. A lively or spirited person. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [noun] > vigour or liveliness > vigorous or lively person colt1723 lively1798 snorter1846 dog1909 the mind > emotion > excitement > excitability of temperament > spiritedness or liveliness > [noun] > person colt1723 1594 T. Lodge & R. Greene Looking Glasse sig. B^v Come on, in faith my colts. 1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 247 She was, a wild untam'd Colt. 1850 Ld. Tennyson Princess (ed. 3) v. 125 She's yet a colt—Take, break her. †c. A lascivious fellow, a wanton. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > [noun] > person > male franion1571 Corinthian1575 colt1584 libertine1584 tit1601 night-sneaker1611 highboy1667 man of the town1671 town bull1709 gay deceiver1710 Lothario1756 playboy1829 gay dog1847 girlie-man1897 lizard1935 player1968 mack daddy1991 1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health ccxlii. 253 The surest remedie that can be deuised for Cupids colts. d. transferred. Coltish nature (cf. beast n. 7b). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > [noun] > animal sensuality > animal nature in man beast1615 colt1727 brute1787 1727 C. Threlkeld Synopsis Stirpium Hibernicarum B v [A birch rod] to drive the Colt out of the man. †3. A cunning fellow, a cheat. Obsolete. rare. (Cf. colt v. 2.) ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun] > one who deceives swikec1000 wielerOE adderOE knavec1275 treacherc1290 guiler1303 gabbera1325 tricharda1327 faitoura1340 jugglera1340 beswiker1340 wernard1362 knackerc1380 beguilera1382 deceiver1382 illusor1382 deceivant1393 fob1393 falsea1400 mocker?c1450 feature14.. deceptor1484 seductor1490 bullera1500 troker?a1500 craftera1529 circumventorc1540 bobber1542 cloyner?1550 illuder?1550 tricker1550 double-dealer1567 treacherer1571 falsary1573 abuser1579 falser1579 treachetour1590 deluder1592 ignis fatuus1592 foolmonger1593 prestigiator1595 aguiler1598 baffler1606 cog-foist1606 feaguer1610 guile-man1614 hocus-pocus1624 colt1632 hoodwink1638 blindfoldera1649 napper1653 cheat1664 fooler1677 underdealer1682 circumvenerc1686 chincher1688 dodger1698 nickum1699 sheep-shearer1699 trickster1711 bilker1717 trickologist1723 taker-in1776 bilk1790 duper1792 Yorkshire bite1801 intake1808 gammoner1819 doer1840 delusionist1841 fiddler1857 snide1874 hoodwinker1884 tanger1886 take-down1888 tiddlywinker1893 wangler1912 frost1914 twicer1924 lurkman1945 jive-ass1964 skanker1973 1632 R. Sanderson 12 Serm. 197 An old tricke, by which C. Verres like a cunning Coult often holpe himselfe at a pinch. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Colt, an Inn-keeper that lends a Horse to a Highway-man. 4. Legal slang. The barrister that attended on a serjeant-at-law at his induction. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal profession > lawyer > [noun] > counsellor, barrister, or advocate > serjeant > barrister attending at induction of colt1765 1765 W. Wynne Observ. Degree Serj. at Law 102 Then Mr. Bailey, his colt, delivered his rings to the Lord Chancellor. 1843 F. Pollock Remembrances (1887) I. 212 In April I accompanied the newly made Chief Baron as his Colt. 1889 B. C. Robinson Bench & Bar The colt..walks in [pone] behind his principal, and it is said that the term ‘colt’ is merely a parody on that Latin word. 5. a. Nautical. A piece of rope used as an instrument of chastisement. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [noun] > rope rope's enda1475 rope-end1583 salt eel1622 colt1780 teaser1910 1780 Falconer's Universal Dict. Marine (rev. ed.) App. Bouts de corde, a cat of nine tails, colt or rope's end for punishment. 1830 F. Marryat King's Own I. viii. 113 He always carried in his pocket a colt (i.e., a foot and a half of rope, knotted at one end, and whipped at the other) for the benefit of the youngsters. 1869 E. Yates Wrecked in Port III. v. 111 A cabin-boy, about to receive the punishment of the ‘colt’ from the mate. b. slang. A piece of rope with something heavy fastened to the end, used as a weapon. ΚΠ 1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 126 Colt, a murderous weapon, formed by slinging a small shot to the end of a rather stiff piece of rope. 6. A third swarm of bees in the season. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > swarm of bees > third of season colt1742 spindle1825 1742 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman June xvi. 182 The Swarm is the first and greatest Number, the Cast is the next greatest, the Colt the next, and the Spew the least of all. †7. The plant Lepidium latifolium, otherwise called Dittany. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Cruciferae (crucifers) > [noun] > cress cressa700 pepperworta1500 dittany1548 sciatica cress1562 way-cresses1562 churl's cress1578 churl's mustard1578 dittander1578 cockweed1585 colt1585 green mustard1597 peasant's mustard1597 sciatica grass1597 scar-wort1657 yellow-seed1818 money tree1934 1585 H. Llwyd tr. Pope John XXI Treasury of Health (new ed.) sig. G ij Colt or detin plasterid vpon the goute, and disese called sciatica, healyth the same. 8. colt's tooth n. a. literal. One of the first set of teeth of a horse (or ass). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > [noun] > equus asinus (ass) > parts of ass-ear?c1225 colt's tooth1607 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > mouth or type of > teeth > first set of teeth colt's tooth1607 foal-teeth1696 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 561 If they [sc. asses] doe not breed..before the casting of theyr Colts-teeth, they remaine steril..al their life. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §754 Horses have, at three years old..the Colts-tooth. 1689 London Gaz. No. 2421/4 A brown bay Gelding..with Colts Teeth in his Head. b. figurative. Youthful tastes or desires; inclination to wantonness: in certain phrases. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > young person > [noun] > characteristics of young person colt's toothc1386 juvenilities1661 youthfullity1763 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > [noun] > of a man > young colt's toothc1386 c1386 G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Prol. 602 But yit I had alway a coltis tothe. c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Reeve's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) Prol. l. 34 And yet I haue alwey a coltes tooth. 1588 R. Greene Perimedes sig. H2^v Hee hath beene a wag, but nowe age hath pluckt out all his Coltes teeth. 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII i. iii. 48 Well said Lord Sands, Your Colts tooth is not cast yet? View more context for this quotation 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 151. About Sixty, which generally produces a Kind of latter Spring in amorous Constitutions, my Aunt Margery had again a Colt's-Tooth in her Head. 1800 J. Wolcot Ld. Auckland's Triumph in Wks. (1812) IV. 317 His Majesty..Had a Colt's tooth and loved another Dame. 1841 J. T. J. Hewlett Parish Clerk I. 81 They not shedding their colt's teeth yet. Compounds †colt-bridle, colt-like adj.; colt-drift n. the drift of ‘colts’ or ponies on Dartmoor (see drift n.). †colt-herb n. Obsolete,† †colt's-hoof n. Obsolete = coltsfoot n. See also colt-evil n., coltsfoot n., colt's tail n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > coltsfoot horse-hoof1398 foalfoota1400 wowellc1450 Tussilago1510 coltsfoot1552 bull-foot1562 colt's-hoof1565–73 colt-herb1587 coughwort1597 horse-foot1597 flap-dock1846 clay-weed1878 1483 Cath. Angl. 72 A Colte brydylle, lupatum. 1565–73 T. Cooper Thesaurus Chamæluce, the herbe called coltes hoofe..with a broad leafe like a poplar. 1587 L. Mascall First Bk. Cattell (Britten & H.) Colt-herb. 1842 Ld. Tennyson St. Simeon Stylites in Poems (new ed.) II. 61 With colt-like whinny and with hoggish whine. 1885 Sat. Rev. 5 Sept. 322 Some..remnants of authority still left..of the old Forest laws, amongst which is the colt-drift, the ponies being locally called colts. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022). Coltn.² Brit. /kəʊlt/, U.S. /koʊlt/ Etymology: < the name of Samuel Colt ( 1814–62), American inventor and firearms manufacturer. Originally U.S. A firearm of a type invented by Samuel Colt, esp. a type of repeating pistol (patented 1835). Frequently in the possessive and attributive. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > pistol > types of dag1587 key gun1607 pocket pistol1612 key pistol1663 holster-pistol1679 troop pistol1688 horse pistol1704 screw-barrel1744 saddle pistol1764 air pistol1780 Wogdon1786 belt pistol1833 dueller1835 Colt1838 tickler1844 Derringer1853 cocking pistol1858 belt size1866 bulldozer1880 saloon pistol1899 Luger1904 Police Positive1905 Steyr1920 Saturday-night pistol1929 muff pistol1938 PPK1946 Makarov1958 Saturday-night special1959 puffer1963 snub nose1979 snubby1981 1838 in J. H. Easterby S. Carolina Rice Plantation (1945) 84 Have you seen any of Colts patent repeating rifles? 1840 Spirit of Times 5 Sept. 319/1 (Weingarten) If you have any of Colt's revolving pistols take that along. 1852 E. G. Squier Nicaragua II. 92 I made a mental resolve..to appeal to my ‘Colt’, before admitting any too familiar approaches. 1854 J. R. Bartlett Personal Narr. Explor. & Incidents I. ii. 19 All were provided with rifles or carbines, and many of the cavalry with Colt's revolvers. 1855 Knickerbocker 45 190 John just then handing me my ‘Colt's’..I dashed over the picket. 1880 A. A. Hayes New Colorado (1881) xiii. 177 ‘What kind of shooting-iron have you?’ he asked. ‘Navy Colt?’ 1907 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. (ed. 8) 517 The automatic Colt or ‘Browning’ pistol, is made in five different models... The magazine capacity is seven shots, and after its insertion in the handle the slide is drawn once to the rear by hand. 1908 G. K. Chesterton Man who was Thursday iii. 46 He caught up the Colt's revolver and took aim at Syme. 1908 C. E. Mulford Orphan xi. 188 ‘That's enough, Sheriff,’ said Tex, moving cautiously forward behind his leveled Colt. 1911 J. London Adventure v. 65 A woman qualified to wear a Baden-Powell and a long-barrelled Colt's. 1912 Field 28 Sept. 655/1 The Colt Automatic ·450 Pistol. 1970 R. Garrett Run Down i. 57 A big Peacemaker Colt. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022). coltv. Brit. /kəʊlt/, U.S. /koʊlt/ Etymology: < colt n.¹ †1. intransitive. To frisk or run wild as a colt (usually implying wantonness). Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > be licentious [verb (intransitive)] > act or behave ragea1400 to play the wanton1529 to play the wanton's part1529 ramp1530 wanton1589 wantonize1592 colta1599 wantonize1611 lasciviate1628 to shake a loose (also free) leg1743 Corinthianize1810 playboy1950 a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 5 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) Shooke off their bridles, and beganne to colte anew, more licentiously then before. 1746 Exmoor Scolding (ed. 3) i. 5 A colting Hobbey-horse [said of a woman]. †2. transitive. To befool, cheat, ‘take in’. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > duping, making a fool of > befool, cheat, dupe [verb (transitive)] belirtOE bitruflea1250 begab1297 bobc1320 bedaffc1386 befool1393 mock1440 triflea1450 glaik?a1513 bedawa1529 fond?1529 allude1535 gulla1550 dolt1553 dor1570 poop1575 colt1579 foolify1581 assot1583 noddify1583 begecka1586 elude1594 wigeona1595 fool1598 noddy1600 fop1602 begull1605 waddle1606 woodcockize1611 bemocka1616 greasea1625 noddypoop1640 truff1657 bubble1668 cully1676 coaxc1679 dupe1704 to play off1712 noodle1769 idiotize1775 oxify1804 tomfool1835 sammyfoozle1837 trail1847 pipe lay1848 pigwidgeon1852 green1853 con1896 rib1912 shuck1959 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 935 There was Cicero finely colted, as old as he was, by a young man. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. ii. 37 Falst. What a plague meane ye to colt me thus? Prin. Thou liest, thou art not colted, thou art vncolted. View more context for this quotation a1625 J. Fletcher Loyal Subj. iii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Eee2/1 What, are we bob'd thus still, colted, and carted? a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Little French Lawyer ii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. H4v/2 Am I thus Colted? †3. (See quot. a1616.) ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity with [verb (transitive)] > mount (a partner) for purpose of sexual intercourse ridea1450 mounta1475 beleap1513 leap1530 colta1616 vaulta1616 rut1700 a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) ii. iv. 133 She hath bin colted by him. View more context for this quotation †4. Of bees: To throw off a ‘colt’ or third swarm. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [verb (intransitive)] > throw off a third swarm colt1745 1745 W. Ellis Agric. Improv'd I. June xvi. 115 Bees will sometimes (but rarely) swarm, cast, colt, and spew, from one and the same old Stock of Bees in one Summer. 5. transitive. To beat with a ‘colt’ (see colt n.¹ 5). ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > administer corporal punishment [verb (transitive)] > with rope rope-end1583 colt1732 start1802 rope's-end1803 rope-end1833 1732 Derby Mercury I. No. 21 A parcel of Nailers..seizing upon a poor young Fellow colted him up to Kilmainham. 1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy I. xii. 180 He colted me for half an hour. 6. intransitive. To fall or ‘cave’ in, as a bank of earth; to collapse, give way. dialect. (Cf. colsh v.)[There is perhaps some association between calve v.¹ and colt thus used.] ΚΠ 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iii. 133 If the coal be full of rifts, it is so much the more apt to colt in upon the Workmen. 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. viii. 306 [The earth]..suddenly coped or colted down upon him. 1884 R. Lawson Upton-on-Severn Words & Phrases Colt, to fall in, as the side of a grave or pit. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹c1000n.²1838v.1579
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