Definitions
A young male horse.
Word origin
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.
Used in a sentence
“The petty vices of boys are like the innocent kicks of colts, as yet imperfectly broken.”
“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.”
“The bowling is more promising in the colts than in the eleven.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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