colt

Определение colt в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь: A young male horse; A short piece of rope once used by petty officers to urge men to work; {n} a young horse, a man without experience; To befool; A male horse, aged three or under; a young male horse under the age of four a kind of revolver; Foal; A colt is a young male horse. American firearms inventor and manufacturer who developed the first revolver. a type of pistol; The young of the equine genus or horse kind of animals; sometimes distinctively applied to the male, filly being the female; An entire male horse under 4 years old; (A) A piece of knotted rope eighteen inches long for the special benefit of ship boys; a cat-o'-nine-tails “Look alive there, lads, or as sure as my name is Sam Weston I'll give the colt to the last man off the deck ”- J Grant: Dick Rodney, chap vii; combat observation/lasing team; A young, foolish fellow; a young male horse under the age of four; a kind of revolver; This term describes a male horse under 3 years old; What your mare gives you when you want a filly; A young male horse, from less than one-year-old until sexual maturity; combat observation lasing team; {i} young male horse; novice; type of pistol; combat observation and lasing team; To horse; to get with young; A short knotted rope formerly used as an instrument of punishment in the navy; Cf; To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly
colt over the fence: An illegitimate child
colt pistol: The recoil extracts and ejects the empty cartridge case, and reloads ready for another shot
colt pistol: A self-loading or semi-automatic pistol with removable magazine in the handle holding seven cartridges
colt pistol: Called also Browning, ∧ Colt-Browning, pistol
colt revolver: A revolver made according to a system using a patented revolving cylinder, holding six cartridges, patented by Samuel Colt, an American inventor, in 1835
colt revolver: With various modifications, it has for many years been the standard for the United States army
colt revolver: type of revolver named after its inventor Samuel Colt
woods colt: A child born out of wedlock
coltish: {a} wanton, frisky, gay
Samuel Colt: born July 19, 1814, Hartford, Conn., U.S. died Jan. 10, 1862, Hartford U.S. inventor. He worked in his father's textile factory before going to sea in 1830. On a voyage to India he conceived the idea for his first revolver, which he later patented (1835-36). Colt's six-shooters were slow to gain acceptance, and his company in Paterson, N.J., failed in 1842. He invented a naval mine with the first remotely controlled explosive in 1843 and conducted a telegraph business that used the first underwater cable. Soldiers' favourable reports prompted an order for 1,000 pistols during the Mexican War, and Colt resumed manufacture in 1847. Assisted by Eli Whitney, Jr., he advanced the development of interchangeable parts and the assembly line. His firm, based in Hartford, produced the revolvers most widely used in the American Civil War and in the settlement of the West, including the famous Colt .45
coltish: A young person or animal that is coltish is full of energy but clumsy or awkward, because they lack physical skill or control. coltish teenagers
coltish: given to merry frolicking; "frolicsome students celebrated their graduation with parties and practical jokes"
coltish: lively and playful; frisky
coltish: {s} like a colt (young horse); full of energy, playful; wild, untrained
coltish: Like a colt; wanton; frisky
coltish: given to merry frolicking; "frolicsome students celebrated their graduation with parties and practical jokes
colts: plural of colt
old-field colt: Old-field colt is one of several old-fashioned regional euphemisms for a child born out of wedlock. The term is native to the Virginia Piedmont. Old-field is the Southern term for an overcultivated field allowed to lie fallow. Being isolated and usually undisturbed, these fields provided a place for unplanned breeding of horses and, figuratively, of children. The term is sometimes shortened to field colt. A related Southern expression is woods colt. The Western U.S. equivalent is catch colt