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COLT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A young male horse under the age of four
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("colt" is a kind of...):
male (an animal that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that can fertilize female gametes (ova))
foal (a young horse)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "colt"):
ridgel; ridgeling; ridgil; ridgling (a colt with undescended testicles)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A kind of revolver
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("Colt" is a kind of...):
revolver; six-gun; six-shooter (a pistol with a revolving cylinder (usually having six chambers for bullets))
Domain usage:
trademark (a formally registered symbol identifying the manufacturer or distributor of a product)
Context examples:
He was pleased to direct his own mare, his colt, and foal, and the servants of the family, to take all opportunities of instructing me; and every day, for two or three hours, he was at the same pains himself.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
He traveled a long while, nearly eight-and-twenty years, and had a hard time of it, till he came to the palace of a good old king, who had offered a reward to anyone who could tame and train a fine but unbroken colt, of which he was very fond.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
At the Five Fingers the dog-food gave out, and a toothless old squaw offered to trade them a few pounds of frozen horse-hide for the Colt’s revolver that kept the big hunting-knife company at Hal’s hip.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
But I had no time to pursue these reflections; for the gray horse came to the door, and made me a sign to follow him into the third room where I saw a very comely mare, together with a colt and foal, sitting on their haunches upon mats of straw, not unartfully made, and perfectly neat and clean.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Meg knew Sallie and was at her ease very soon, but Jo, who didn't care much for girls or girlish gossip, stood about, with her back carefully against the wall, and felt as much out of place as a colt in a flower garden.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
When the matron Houyhnhnms have produced one of each sex, they no longer accompany with their consorts, except they lose one of their issue by some casualty, which very seldom happens; but in such a case they meet again; or when the like accident befalls a person whose wife is past bearing, some other couple bestow on him one of their own colts, and then go together again until the mother is pregnant.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Fifteen-year-old Jo was very tall, thin, and brown, and reminded one of a colt, for she never seemed to know what to do with her long limbs, which were very much in her way.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
