Associations to the word «Colt»

Pictures for the word «Colt»

Wiktionary

COLT, noun. A young male horse.
COLT, noun. A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
COLT, noun. (nautical) A short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment.
COLT, verb. (obsolete) (transitive) To horse; to get with young.
COLT, verb. (obsolete) (transitive) To befool.
COLT, verb. To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.
COLT EVIL, noun. (obsolete) A swelling in the genitals of horses; also (by extension), priapism.

Dictionary definition

COLT, noun. A young male horse under the age of four.
COLT, noun. A kind of revolver.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats