colt

noun

1. A young male horse.

   “The petty vices of boys are like the innocent kicks of colts, as yet imperfectly broken.”

2. A young crane (bird).
3. (figuratively)A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.

   “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.”

4. (figuratively, slang)A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.

   “The bowling is more promising in the colts than in the eleven.”

5. (figuratively, obsolete, slang)A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
6. (historical)A short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment.
7. (obsolete, slang)A weapon formed by slinging a small shot to the end of a somewhat stiff piece of rope.
8. A young camel or donkey.
9. A revolver (gun) (from Colt's Manufacturing Company), associated especially but not exclusively with the American Wild West.

   “Only in it she held a derringer in her hand, not a Colt. But that look of disbelief on Leonard's face could not have been more real.”

   “He saw the shotgunner stagger into the lingering cloud of smoke. He jumped to his feet before the man could reload and charged toward him. The man dropped his shotgun and clawed for his pistol, a blueblack hole in his left leg, near the groin. John stopped and fired his Colt, aiming for the man's heart. But Luke's left leg gave way and tilted him sideways, so the bullet from John's gun struck his right shoulder, spun him like a top. His pistol slipped from his hand.”

   “His soldier's instinct had him dropping to the ground before he even thought of it, and Captain Hargreaves fired his Colt. The bullet zoomed over Butsko's head and whacked in the chest of the hapless soldier who'd been standing behind him. Butsko rolled over on the ground, stopped, and brought his rifle quickly to his shoulder as Captain Hargreaves fired again, his bullet burrowing in the muck six inches from Butsko's face. Butsko fired at Captain Hargreaves ...”

   “Clint snap-aimed and fired his Colt. The man's stetson whirled off his head. So did part of his skull. The second gunman bounced up and fired a shot at the Gunsmith. The bullet struck the dead flesh of Clint's cover. The Gunsmith fired back and saw a crimson spider appear at the man's shoulder. The gunman groaned and bolted for the side exit. Clint pointed his Colt and squeezed the trigger. The hammer struck the firing pin and drove it into an empty chamber.”

verb

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

   “Never talk on't: / She hath been colted by him.”

2. (obsolete, transitive)To befool.

   “What a plague mean ye to colt me thus?”

3. (intransitive)To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.

   “They shook off their bridles and began to colt.”

4. (obsolete, slang, transitive)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.

   “We watched our opportunity, seized him, and, laying him across a chest, we colted him with a boot-jack until we nearly killed him, he at the time suffering from numerous boils in the nates; and for all this he obtained no redress!”

   “[…] his first appearance the jury duly "colted" him.”

name

1. (countable, uncountable)A surname originating as an occupation.
2. (countable, uncountable)A male given name transferred from the surname.

   “It took two years for Colt and his extended family to find the ideal land on which to spend the rest of their lives.”

3. (countable, uncountable)A town in St. Francis County, Arkansas, United States.
4. (countable, uncountable)An unincorporated community in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States.