(n.) The young of the equine genus or horse kind of animals; -- sometimes distinctively applied to the male, filly being the female. Cf. Foal.
(n.) A young, foolish fellow.
(n.) A short knotted rope formerly used as an instrument of punishment in the navy.
(v. i.) To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.
(v. t.) To horse; to get with young.
(v. t.) To befool.
Example Sentences:
(1) Its current troubles are in part due to the fact that Colt lost out on the M4 US army contract to FN Herstal in 2013.
(2) Complete esophageal impaction developed when the colt ate solid material.
(3) A yearling Quarter Horse colt was examined because of intermittent esophageal obstruction.
(4) Two weeks later the Colts would prevail 29-17 at Super Bowl XLI.
(5) A 6-month-old Appaloosa colt had a deviation of the premaxilla and nasal septum as well as a dorsal hump of the nasal bone and maxillomandibular malocclusion.
(6) Tebow signed for the Jets in March 2012 , after it became clear that the Broncos – who he had rescued from a 1-4 start to 2011 and taken to an 8-8 finish and a playoff run that was ended by the Patriots – would sign the Indianapolis Colts great Peyton Manning.
(7) The Patriots eventually beat the Colts 43-22, but it wasn't quite the romp that that final tally would suggest, as the Colts cut it to a one-score game in the third quarter.
(8) But his capacity to digest playbooks is unrivalled – allowing Manning to lead the Colts offence in a way quite unlike other NFL quarterbacks: operating almost exclusively without a huddle and calling his plays at the line.
(9) The monkey finally off their back, Manning and the Colts would return to the Super Bowl three years later, though this time they would be defeated by Drew Brees and the underdog New Orleans Saints.
(10) For instance, Colt Defence sells a lot of guns for military purposes.
(11) Although retention times by all colts were similar, cold-housed colts digested more ADF and less phosphorus (P) than did warm-housed colts (P less than .05).
(12) New England Patriots 43-22 Indianapolis Colts - as it happened
(13) The colt had undergone surgical correction of a ruptured urinary bladder at 4 days of age, and a 5-cm tear through one of the previous scars was identified and repaired during exploratory celiotomy.
(14) Rams 21-0 Colts OK, so hands up who saw this one coming?
(15) Almost instantly it seems the Patriots are in a three down hole, Brady connects with Amendola for a fresh set of downs, while time is starting to be the enemy for the Colts.
(16) 3.33am GMT Colts 22-29 Patriots, 2:20, 3rd quarter Huge three and out for the Patriots, Luck gets sacked by Jamie Collins for a loss of eight yards and then he throws two straight incompletions.
(17) Having previously started every one of the Colts' games since being drafted in 1998, he would go on to miss the entire 2011 season.
(18) Clinical signs consisted of dyspnea and dysphagia attributable to cranial cervical hematoma in one colt and to intra-abdominal hemorrhage resulting in death of the second colt.
(19) Incredible scenes in Indianapolis, where the Colts have now completed a 28-point comeback to beat the Chiefs.
(20) It certainly felt that way midway through the Colts' next postseason meeting with the Patriots – the AFC Championship game on 21 January 2007.
Jolt
Definition:
(v. i.) To shake with short, abrupt risings and fallings, as a carriage moving on rough ground; as, the coach jolts.
(v. t.) To cause to shake with a sudden up and down motion, as in a carriage going over rough ground, or on a high-trotting horse; as, the horse jolts the rider; fast driving jolts the carriage and the passengers.
(n.) A sudden shock or jerk; a jolting motion, as in a carriage moving over rough ground.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tracks were almost exclusively written on tour, including this jolting number, with an additional four tracks recorded in the studio.
(2) So here’s hoping that the electricity of Paris will have given Ms Rudd the sort of shock that might jolt her from half-decent intentions into a real and lasting commitment to act.
(3) She writes: Reassurances from the US that short-term measures will be instigated to avert the upcoming debt-ceiling deadline have given European equity markets a jolt upwards, helping to stem some of the risk aversion of the past few days.
(4) Although much has been made, since the referendum, of results showing that areas with little migration were most opposed to it, we should not underestimate the jolt that accompanied the effects of free movement within a newly enlarged European Union.
(5) Updated at 2.10pm BST 1.47pm BST Over to America, where the latest productivity figures confirm that the US economy took a nasty jolt over the winter, when bad weather gripped the country.
(6) The chemical disaster in Bhopal jolted activist groups around the world into renewing their demands for right-to-know legislation granting them broader access to information about hazardous technologies.
(7) In "jolting" mice aged 4 months or more there was a marked loss of Purkinje cells and spheroids were present on Purkinje cell axons.
(8) The chief executive, Simon Lim, says Tan was jolted by the manager's announcement that he would seek backing from the board for strengthening.
(9) But we need a jolt at a national level to regain control of our destiny," Ayrault said.
(10) The legislation was passed by the House foreign affairs committee last February but it was stalled until Pyongyang jolted the world by setting off an underground nuclear bomb test.
(11) They had endured a jolting four-hour journey from their village of Rorabad, along roads sometimes seeded with Taliban bombs, but still Maraz Gul considers herself relatively lucky compared with neighbours whose children are also wasting away.
(12) The central bank needs to convince them that it will do “whatever it takes,” as Draghi put it in July 2012, to jolt the economy out of its deflationary lethargy.
(13) On the bare floor of an open-backed military truck, Ariel Sharon's flag-draped coffin jolted along a rough track to a hilltop spot overlooking his ranch on the edge of the Negev desert, where he was laid to rest next to his beloved wife.
(14) "I saw him jolt back and put his hands on his face and there was blood there.
(15) They also believe that the prime minister has ceded too much ground to Nick Clegg after the Liberal Democrats were jolted by their heavy defeat in the AV referendum in May.
(16) Unions say it was the balloting of their members that jolted the government into improving its offer at a late stage, and that some scheme-specific talks have not taken place since the offer was announced.
(17) The breaks between these sections jolt us back in time to see the causes of consequences we have already observed.
(18) Reformers finally have the jolt in the arm they needed to prevent the positive impact of Snowden’s revelations dribbling away.
(19) A magnitude 6.6 aftershock struck an hour later and there were smaller jolts in the region for hours.
(20) But his words are jolting and lucid as he recalls a terrifying ordeal.