gelding Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun castrated male horse
  2. verb cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses)
    cut; geld.
    • the vet gelded the young horse

WordNet

Geld"ing noun
Etymology
Icel. gelding a gelding, akin to geldingr wether, eunuch, Sw. gälling gelding, Dan. gilding eunuch. See Geld, v. t.
Definitions
  1. A castrated animal; -- usually applied to a horse, but formerly used also of the human male.
    They went down both into the water, Philip and the gelding, and Philip baptized him. Wyclif (Acts viii. 38).
Geld"ing present participle adjective & verbal noun
Definitions
  1. from Geld, v. t.

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