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Gelding

Gelding Meaning & Definition
Gelding Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Gelding?

[n] castrated male horse

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See Also | male horse

Gelding In Webster's Dictionary

\Geld"ing\, n. [Icel. gelding a gelding, akin to geldingr wether, eunuch, Sw. g["a]lling gelding, Dan. gilding eunuch. See {Geld}, v. 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\, p. pr. a. & vb. n. from {Geld}, v. t.

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