Colt

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A young male horse.

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

2. isim A young crane (bird).
3. isim 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. isim A professional cricketer during his first season.

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

5. isim A person who sits as a juryman for the first time.
6. isim A short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment.
7. isim A weapon formed by slinging a small shot to the end of a somewhat stiff piece of rope.
8. isim A young camel or donkey.
9. fiil To horse; to get with young.

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

10. fiil To befool.

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

11. fiil To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.

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

12. fiil 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!”

13. özel isim A surname originating as an occupation.
14. özel isim 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.”

15. özel isim A town in St. Francis County, Arkansas, United States.
16. özel isim An unincorporated community in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States.
17. isim 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.”