gelding
- a castrated male animal, especially a horse.
- a eunuch.
Origin of gelding
geld
1- to castrate (an animal, especially a horse).
- to take strength, vitality, or power from; weaken or subdue.
Origin of geld
1Examples from the Web for gelding
Contemporary Examples of gelding
As a gelding, Mine That Bird obviously has no breeding future.
After gelding took care of that final problem, his career blossomed.
Historical Examples of gelding
He went across to the hotel, tied the gelding at the rack, and sat down on the veranda.
Way of the LawlessMax Brand
Could they have outridden the gelding to such an extent as that?
Way of the LawlessMax Brand
In the meantime, three days had put the gelding in very fair condition.
Way of the LawlessMax Brand
With head bowed, shoulders hunched, he bent over the gelding.
Garrison's FinishW. B. M. Ferguson
She glanced at him sharply, then fell to pleating the gelding's mane.
Garrison's FinishW. B. M. Ferguson
gelding
- a castrated male horse
Word Origin for gelding
geld
1- to castrate (a horse or other animal)
- to deprive of virility or vitality; emasculate; weaken
Word Origin for geld
geld
2- a tax on land levied in late Anglo-Saxon and Norman England
Word Origin for geld
Word Origin and History for gelding
late 13c. (as a surname), from Old Norse geldingr, from gelda "castrate" (see geld (v.)).
geld
"royal tax in medieval England," Old English gield "payment, tribute," from Proto-Germanic *geldam "payment" (cf. Middle High German gelt "payment, contribution," German geld "money," Old Norse gjald "payment," Gothic gild "tribute, tax"), from PIE root of yield (v.).
geld
"to castrate," c.1300, from Old Norse gelda "castrate" from geldr "barren," from Proto-Germanic *galdu-, from PIE *ghel- "to cut." Related: Gelded. Cf. Old Norse geldr "yielding no milk, dry," Old High German galt "barren," said of a cow.