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Molted vs Colted - What's the difference?

molted | colted |

As verbs the difference between molted and colted

is that molted is past tense of molt while colted is past tense of colt.

molted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (molt)

    • molt

    English

    Alternative forms

    * moult (British English )

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To shed hair, feathers, skin, horns etc. and replace it by a fresh layer.
  • To shed in such a manner.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The process of shedding or losing a covering of fur, feathers or skin etc.
    • Some birds change colour during their winter molt .
  • The skin or feathers cast off during the process of ing.

    • References

    * ----

    colted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (colt)

    • 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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