Dictionary Definition
colt
Noun
1 a young male horse under the age of four
2 a kind of revolver
User Contributed Dictionary
Noun
- A young male horse
- A short piece of rope once used by petty officers to urge men to work
Translations
horse
- Bulgarian: жребче
- Catalan: poltre
- Dutch: hengstveulen
- Faroese: koltur
- Finnish: varsa, orivarsa
- French: poulain
- German: Hengstfohlen
- Irish: bromach
- Italian: puledro
- Latin: equuleus
- Lithuanian: kumeliukas
- Macedonian: ждребе
- Maltese: mohor , felu
- Norwegian: hingstføll
- Polish: źrebak
- Romanian: mânz
- Russian: жеребёнок , жеребчик
- Scottish Gaelic: capall , bromach , loth , lothag , searrach , biorach(-eich)
- Slovene: žrebe
- Spanish: potranco , potro
- Turkish: tay
rope
- Russian: линёк
Extensive Definition
Colt can refer to:
The animal
- Colt (horse), a young male horse or other equid
Firearms company and related
- Colt's Manufacturing Company, an American firearm company
- Samuel Colt, its founder
- Colt revolver, a firearm made by the company
- Colt 45
- Colt Defense, a firearm company split from the parent company in 2002.
- The Colt, a fictional firearm depicted in the U.S. television series Supernatural
Sports
- Indianapolis Colts, a National Football League franchise which prior to 1984 was based in Baltimore
- Houston Astros, a Major League Baseball franchise previously known as the Houston Colt .45s
- Barrie Colts, an Ontario Hockey League franchise
Aviation and transport
- Piper PA-22-108 Colt, an aircraft used for training pilots
- The Antonov An-2 biplane's NATO reporting name
- Mitsubishi Colt, a supermini built by Mitsubishi Motors
- Colt Car Company, the British importer of Mitsubishi Motors
- Colt International, a provider of contract aviation fuel and flight planning services
Other businesses
- COLT Telecom Group plc, a European telecommunications company
- COLT Studio Group, producers of gay pornography
People and characters
- Colt Brennan, an American football quarterback at the University of Hawaii.
- The mascot of Parkway Central High School
- A major character in the animated television series Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs
- J. M. Colt, an occasional character in the original Star Trek TV series
- Judah Colt, early settler of Erie County, Pennsylvania
Acronyms
- Combat Observation Laser Teams, an artillery observer responsible for directing laser-guided munitions
- Computational learning theory, the mathematical field machine learning algorithms
Other
- The juvenile crane (bird)
- A share taxi used in Indonesia
- Colt, Arkansas, a city in St. Francis County, Arkansas
- The Colts Drum and Bugle Corps, a modern Division I drum and bugle corps from Dubuque, Iowa
- Conditional Outdoor Leadership Theory (Priest & Gass, 1997)
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colt in Japanese: コルト
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colt in Simple English: Colt
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Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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