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noun
Gelding  n.  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."


verb
Geld  v. t.  (past & past part. gelded or gelt; pres. part. gelding)  
1.
To castrate; to emasculate.
2.
To deprive of anything essential. "Bereft and gelded of his patrimony."
3.
To deprive of anything exceptionable; as, to geld a book, or a story; to expurgate. (Obs.)


Gelding  pres. part., adj., n.  From Geld, v. t.





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"Gelding" Quotes from Famous Books



... bubbled and picquted. they frequently throwed themselves by the ropes by which they were confined. all except one were stone horse for the people in this neighbourhood do not understand the art of gelding them, and this is a season at which they are most vicious. many of the natives remained about ...
— The Journals of Lewis and Clark • Meriwether Lewis et al
... off for drill to the parade grounds. Wrathfully she glanced at the poor old beasts, the bones sticking out of their wrinkled, badly groomed skin like those of a skeleton. Then she lifted the hind feet of the brown gelding and examined the hoofs. She drew a small note-book from her habit, and entered on the dated page: "Remus No. 37. Left hind iron." Next she climbed the steep wooden stairs leading up to the hayloft. There they were, the culprits, two men of the stable guard, slumbering ...
— A Little Garrison - A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day • Fritz von der Kyrburg
... odd years since Cannibal had won the big race for him; and this year it was known that he had only come up to see the sport. True he had a horse running, down on the card as Four-Pound-the-Second, brown gelding, five years old, green jacket and cap, ten stone; but he was an any-price outsider, only entered because for something like fifty years there had never been a National in which a Putnam horse had not played a part. And rumour had it that Four-Pound ...
— Boy Woodburn - A Story of the Sussex Downs • Alfred Ollivant
... stockman caught and saddled a chestnut gelding. Compared with the thoroughbreds of Langdale Station, the horse was heavily built, but it had beautifully made shoulders and back. The rump was coupled to the saddle of the back without the slightest dip, and the curve rose over a pair of high ...
— In the Musgrave Ranges • Jim Bushman
... join'd the hunt, Of bogs and bushes bore the brunt, Nor once my courser held in; But when I saw a yawning steep, I thought of "Look before you leap," And curb'd my eager gelding. ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 17, Number 489, Saturday, May 14, 1831 • Various


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