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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)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) 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...
  2. (obsolete, transitive) 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...
  3. (intransitive) 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
  4. (obsolete, slang, transitive) 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

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Questions about colted

What is colted the simple past and past participle of?
Colted is the simple past and past participle of colt.

Words near colted in the dictionary

  1. colt's-foot
  2. colt's-foots
  3. coltan
  4. coltans
  5. Coltauco
  6. colted
  7. Colten
  8. colter
  9. colterol
  10. colters
  11. Coltfield

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