COLT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Colt mean? 

• COLT (noun)
  The noun COLT has 2 senses:

1. a young male horse under the age of four

2. a kind of revolver

  Familiarity information: COLT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A young male horse under the age of four

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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 

The behaviour of the young colt and foal appeared very modest, and that of the master and mistress extremely cheerful and complaisant to their guest.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I look at the woman. Her mitten is off, and the big Colt's revolver is in her hand. Three times she shoot, quick, just like that.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

She started from him as a young colt who first feels the bit.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Well, if you won’t fight, Harrison, I must try to get some promising colt.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His wrenched shoulder-blade, untreated and unrested, went from bad to worse, till finally Hal shot him with the big Colt’s revolver.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The knight agreed to try, and got on slowly but surely, for the colt was a gallant fellow, and soon learned to love his new master, though he was freakish and wild.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

They have no fondness for their colts or foals, but the care they take in educating them proceeds entirely from the dictates of reason.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

When we get back to Dawson she ask me to buy good revolver for her. I buy a Colt's 44. It is very heavy, but she carry it in her belt all the time.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He was in a great state of mind at that, and mounting the colt, who stood by him through thick and thin, rushed to the castle to see which was left.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Hal was a youngster of nineteen or twenty, with a big Colt’s revolver and a hunting-knife strapped about him on a belt that fairly bristled with cartridges.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)