About The Word Gelding
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Gelding
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What's The Definition Of Gelding?
[n] castrated male horse
Synonyms | Synonyms for Gelding: Related Terms | Find terms related to Gelding: altering | blank cartridge | brood mare | castration | castrato | charger | colt | courser | critter | dobbin | dud | emasculation | entire | entire horse | equine | eunuch | filly | fixing | foal | horse | Houyhnhnm | impotent | incompetent | invalid | mare | mount | nag | prancer | spaying | stallion | steed | stud | studhorse | tarpan | top horse | war-horse | weakling | wild horse 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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