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Colt vs Bison - What's the difference?

colt | bison |

As nouns the difference between colt and bison

is that colt is a young male horse while bison is a wild ox, bison bonasus .

As a verb colt

is (obsolete|transitive) to horse; to get with young.

colt

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A young male horse.
  • A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
  • * 1594 , , I. ii. 38:
    • 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.
  • (nautical) A short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment.

    • Derived terms

    * colt's tooth

    See also

    * stallion, mare, foal, filly, horseling

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To horse; to get with young.
  • * 1610 , , II. iv. 133:
    • Never talk on't: / She hath been colted by him.
  • (obsolete) To befool.
  • * 1594 , , II. ii. 36:
    • What a plague mean ye to colt me thus?
  • To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.
  • * Spenser
    • They shook off their bridles and began to colt .
    (Webster 1913)

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    bison

    English

    (wikipedia bison)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A wild ox, Bison bonasus .
  • A similar American animal, Bison bison'' else ''Bos americanus'' or ''Bisonte americano ; also called a buffalo.

    • Synonyms

    * wisent (Bison bonasus )

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