{"id":2785,"date":"2012-09-26T13:32:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T17:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/?p=2785"},"modified":"2012-12-07T14:02:25","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T19:02:25","slug":"new-artwork-ian-rogers-a-rake-of-colts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/26\/new-artwork-ian-rogers-a-rake-of-colts\/","title":{"rendered":"New Artwork \u2013 Ian Rogers \u2013 a Rake of Colts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another\u00a0collective noun<\/a>\u00a0– today, a Rake of Colts.\u00a0In looking up information regarding this collective noun, I found out that colts are specifically uncastrated male horses under four years old.<\/p>\n

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I’ve never heard the term “rake” applied to colts, but apparently it’s a legitimate (albeit archaic) \u00a0usage.<\/p>\n

Rake: colts or mules,\u00a0collectively<\/em>; a row or series.
\nExamples<\/em>:\u00a0rake of colts\u2014Bk. of St. Albans<\/em>, 1486; rake of hutches (a string of horses), 1901.
\n– “Rake.”\u00a0Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms.\u00a0Ivan G. Sparkes, 1975.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Another\u00a0collective noun\u00a0– today, a Rake of Colts.\u00a0In looking up information regarding this collective noun, I found out that colts are specifically uncastrated male horses under four years old. I’ve never heard the term “rake” applied to colts, but apparently it’s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[207,221,116,228],"tags":[678,210,362,472,214,229,117,454,455,549],"class_list":["post-2785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calligraphy-and-lettering","category-drawing","category-illustrators","category-my-sketchbook","tag-abecedary","tag-calligraphy","tag-canadian-illustrator","tag-collective-nouns","tag-hand-lettering","tag-ian-rogers","tag-illustration","tag-montreal-illustrator","tag-quebec-illustrator","tag-rake-of-colts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2JDlZ-IV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}