Word Direct Answers

What does "colt" mean?

Colt: A young, foolish fellow. Shak.

Additional senses

  1. 2.A short knotted rope formerly used as an instrument of punishment in the navy. Ham. Nav. Encyc. Colt's tooth, an imperfect or superfluous tooth in young horses. -- To cast one's colt's tooth, to cease from youthful wantonness. "Your colt's tooth is not cast yet." Shak. -- To have a colt's tooth, to be wanton. Chaucer.
  2. 3.To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly. [Obs.] They shook off their bridles and began to colt. Spenser.
  3. 4.To horse; to get with young. Shak.
  4. 5.To befool. [Obs.] Shak.

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