Geld
[geld]
Definition
(verb.) cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses); 'the vet gelded the young horse'.
Checker: Tessie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Money; tribute; compensation; ransom.
(v. t.) To castrate; to emasculate.
(v. t.) To deprive of anything essential.
(v. t.) To deprive of anything exceptionable; as, to geld a book, or a story; to expurgate.
Typist: Perry
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Castrate, emasculate, glib, deprive of virility.
Edited by Bertram
Definition
n. a historical term meaning money: tribute.
v.t. to emasculate castrate: to spay: to deprive of anything essential to enfeeble: to deprive of anything objectionable.—ns. Geld′er; Geld′ing act of castrating: a castrated animal esp. a horse.
Edited by Johanna
Examples
- He was riding a big gray gelding and he wore a khaki beret, a blanket cape like a poncho, and heavy black boots. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- We looked him up in the programme from the number on the groom's arm and it was listed a black gelding named Japalac. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
Typed by Leona