Coted vs Colted - What's the difference?
coted | colted |
(cote)
A cottage or hut.
A small structure built to contain domesticated animals such as sheep, pigs or pigeons.
* Milton
(obsolete) To quote.
To go side by side with; hence, to pass by; to outrun and get before.
* Shakespeare
* 1825 , , The Talisman , A. and C. Black (1868), 37:
(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
As verbs the difference between coted and colted
is that coted is past tense of cote while colted is past tense of colt.coted
English
Verb
(head)cote
English
Etymology 1
From the (etyl) cote, the feminine form of . Cognate to Dutch kot.Noun
(en noun)- Watching where shepherds pen their flocks, at eve, / In hurdled cotes .
Synonyms
* shedEtymology 2
See quote.Verb
(cot)- (Udall)
Etymology 3
Probably related to (etyl) .Verb
(cot)- A dog cotes a hare.
- (Drayton)
- We coted them on the way, and hither are they coming.
- [...]strength to pull down a bull——swiftness to cote an antelope.
Anagrams
* ----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 .