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Colt (n.)

type of revolver, 1838, originally the manufacture of U.S. gunsmith Samuel Colt (1814-1862).

colt (n.)

Old English colt "a young horse," also "young ass," in Biblical translations also used for "young camel," perhaps from Proto-Germanic *kultaz (source also of Swedish dialectal kult "young boar, piglet; boy," Danish kuld "offspring, brood") and akin to child. Commonly and distinctively applied to the male, the young female being a filly. Applied to young or inexperienced persons from early 13c.

COLT'S TOOTH An old fellow who marries, or keeps a young girl, is ſaid to have a colt's tooth in his head. ["Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," 1796]

The image is in Chaucer. Colts shed their first set of teeth beginning at about three years.

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Definitions of Colt from WordNet
1
colt (n.)
a young male horse under the age of four;
2
Colt (n.)
a kind of revolver;
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