colted
colted is the simple past and past participle of colt.
Meaning of colt
Verb
colt (third-person singular simple present colts, present participle colting, simple past and past participle colted)
- To horse; to get with young.
- Never talk on't: / She hath been colted by him.1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
- To befool.
- What a plague mean ye to colt me thus?c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
- To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.
- They shook off their bridles and began to colt.1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […]...
- Synonyms:
- harlotize
- 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!1849, The Lancet, page 53
Questions about colted
- What is colted the simple past and past participle of?
- Colted is the simple past and past participle of colt.
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