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Webster 1913 Edition

Gelding

Geld′ing

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Noun.
[Icel.
gelding
a gelding, akin to
geldingr
wether, eunuch, Sw.
gälling
gelding, Dan.
gilding
eunuch. See
Geld
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Verb.
T.
]
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

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p.
pr.
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Adj.
, &
vb.
Noun.
from
Geld
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Verb.
T.

Webster 1828 Edition

Gelding

GELD'ING

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ppr.
Castrating.

GELD'ING

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Noun.
A castrated animal,but chiefly a horse.

Definition 2024

gelding

gelding

English

Noun

gelding ‎(plural geldings)

  1. a castrated male horse
  2. any castrated male animal
  3. (archaic) a eunuch
    • Wyclif Bible, Acts viii. 38
      They went down both into the water, Philip and the gelding, and Philip baptized him.

Translations

Verb

gelding

  1. present participle of geld

Anagrams

Etymology

From Old Norse geldingr, from gelda ‎(“to castrate”), whence also English geld (Etymology 2).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡɛldɪŋ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛldɪŋ

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