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单词 horse-colt
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horse-coltn.

Forms: see horse n. and colt n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: horse n., colt n.1
Etymology: < horse n. + colt n.1Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈhorse-colt.
A young (male) horse.
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a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Ecclus. xxiii. 30 As an horsecolt he shal be dryue.
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 39 Þe tythes owyth to be payed of folys of hors, þat is, of hors-coltys.
1544 Will of J. Welles in B.M. Addit. MS. 24,925 lf. 22 iij coltes, one horse colt and ij mare coltes.
1760 G. Washington Writings (1889) II. 168 My Great Chestnut foalded a horse colt on the 6 Instant.
1809 Portfolio 2nd Ser. II. 309 Horse~colts and mare-colts.
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