gelding
a castrated male animal, especially a horse.
a eunuch.
Origin of gelding
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How to use gelding in a sentence
As a gelding, Mine That Bird obviously has no breeding future.
After gelding took care of that final problem, his career blossomed.
Cursing furiously, Wade drove him at it again, and again the gelding balked.
Hidden Gold | Wilder AnthonyYou, St Denis, your gelding shall walk without doors, and cool his feet for his master's sake.
Nor is the first sixth a fit day for a girl to be born, but a kindly for gelding kids and sheep and for fencing in a sheep-cote.
Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | Homer and Hesiod
Why, you may ha' my master's gelding, to save your longing, sir.
Narcissus | UnknownPablo muttered, and followed for a saddle for the gray gelding.
The Pride of Palomar | Peter B. Kyne
British Dictionary definitions for gelding
/ (ˈɡɛldɪŋ) /
a castrated male horse
Origin of gelding
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