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ˈhorse-colt A young (male) horse.
1382Wyclif Ecclus. xxiii. 30 As an horsecolt he shal be dryue. c1440Jacob's Well (E.E.T.S.) 39 Þe tythes owyth to be payed of folys of hors, þat is, of hors-coltys. 1544Will of J. Welles in B.M. Addit. MS. 24,925 lf. 22, iij coltes, one horse colt and ij mare coltes. 1760Washington Writ. (1889) II. 168 My Great Chestnut foalded a horse colt on the 6 Instant. 1809Portfolio Ser. ii. II. 309 Horse⁓colts and mare-colts. |