Colted vs Colter - What's the difference?
colted | colter |
(colt)
A young male horse.
A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
* 1594 , , I. ii. 38:
(nautical) A short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment.
(obsolete) To horse; to get with young.
* 1610 , , II. iv. 133:
(obsolete) To befool.
* 1594 , , II. ii. 36:
To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.
* Spenser
A knife or cutter attached to the beam of a plow to cut the sward, in advance of the plowshare and moldboard.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.9:
* 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
The part of a seed drill that makes the furrow for the seed.
As a verb colted
is past tense of colt.As a noun colter is
a knife or cutter attached to the beam of a plow to cut the sward, in advance of the plowshare and moldboard.colted
English
Verb
(head)colt
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
Derived terms
* colt's toothSee also
* stallion, mare, foal, filly, horselingVerb
(en verb)- Never talk on't: / She hath been colted by him.
- What a plague mean ye to colt me thus?
- They shook off their bridles and began to colt .
Anagrams
*colter
English
Alternative forms
* coulter (mostly Commonwealth )Noun
(en noun)- I lately left a furrow, one or twayne, / Unplough'd, the which my coulter hath not cleft […].
- What is it but a servitude like that impos'd by the Philistims, not to be allow'd the sharpning of our own axes and coulters , but we must repair from all quarters to twenty licencing forges.