colt

noun8

1. •
   A young male horse.

   • The petty vices of boys are like the innocent kicks of colts, as yet imperfectly broken. — 1857
2. •
   A young crane (bird).
3. •
   A young camel or donkey.
4. •
   (figurative) 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. — 1596
5. •
   (slang, figurative) A professional cricketer during his first season.

   • The bowling is more promising in the colts than in the eleven. — 1882
6. •
   (historical) A short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment.
7. •
   (figurative, no longer used) A person who sits as a juryman for the first time.
8. •
   (slang, no longer used) A weapon formed by slinging a small shot to the end of a somewhat stiff piece of rope.

verb4

1. •
   To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.

   • They shook off their bridles and began to colt. — 1596
2. •
   (no longer used) To horse; to get with young.

   • Never talk on't: / She hath been colted by him. — 1611
3. •
   (no longer used) To befool.

   • What a plague mean ye to colt me thus? — 1597
4. •
   (slang, no longer used) 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.

   • […] his first appearance the jury duly "colted" him. — 1923

noun1

1. •
   A revolver (gun) (from Colt's Manufacturing Company), associated especially but not exclusively with the American Wild West.

   • He shaved and managed to pull on a clean shirt and trousers. He put a fresh clip in his Beretta and wrapped the Colt in his discarded shirt and put it in his suitcase. — 1954