To frisk, frolic, or run at large, like a colt.
[Cf. calve, v., 2, and cave, verb, II., 2.] To become detached, as a mass of earth from a bank or excavation; cave: with in.
To befool; fool.
To beat with a rope's end. See colt, n., 4.
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A young horse, or a young animal of the horse tribe: commonly and distinctively applied to the male, the young female being a filly.
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A person new to office or to the exercise of any art; a green hand: as, a team of colts at cricket.
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A cheat; a slippery fellow.
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A rope's end used for punishment; also, a piece of rope with something heavy at the end used as a weapon.
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The second after-swarm of bees.
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Synonyms Filly, etc. See pony.