Obs. Pa. t. and pa. pple. colurt. A word of venery, of uncertain sense.
(Connection with COLLAR has been conjectured.)
c. 1420. Avow. Arth., xvii. The king couthe of venery, Colurt him [the bore] fulle kyndely, The hed of that hardy He sette on a stake. Ibid., xxxi. The bore brittunt thay fande, Was colurt of the kingus hande [MS. funde, hunde, rhyme londe].
