Vocabulary : Colporter to Coltsfoot

Colporter : Same as Colporteur.
Colporteur : A hawker; specifically, one who travels about selling and distributing religious tracts and books.
Colstaff : A staff by means of which a burden is borne by two persons on their shoulders.
Colt : The young of the equine genus or horse kind of animals; -- sometimes distinctively applied to the male, filly being the female. Cf. Foal. ;; A young, foolish fellow. ;; A short knotted rope formerly used as an instrument of punishment in the navy. ;; To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly. ;; To horse; to get with young. ;; To befool.
Colt pistol : A self-loading or semi-automatic pistol with removable magazine in the handle holding seven cartridges. The recoil extracts and ejects the empty cartridge case, and reloads ready for another shot. Called also Browning, / Colt-Browning, pistol.

Colt revolver : A revolver made according to a system using a patented revolving cylinder, holding six cartridges, patented by Samuel Colt, an American inventor, in 1835. With various modifications, it has for many years been the standard for the United States army.
Colter : A knife or cutter, attached to the beam of a plow to cut the sward, in advance of the plowshare and moldboard.
Coltish : Like a colt; wanton; frisky.
Colt's tooth : See under Colt.
Coltsfoot : A perennial herb (Tussilago Farfara), whose leaves and rootstock are sometimes employed in medicine.

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