Crossword clues for gelding
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Geld \Geld\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gelded or Gelt (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gelding.] [Icel. gelda to castrate; akin to Dan. gilde, Sw. g["a]lla, and cf. AS. gilte a young sow, OHG. galt dry, not giving milk, G. gelt, Goth. gilpa siclke.]
To castrate; to emasculate.
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To deprive of anything essential.
Bereft and gelded of his patrimony.
--Shak. To deprive of anything exceptionable; as, to geld a book, or a story; to expurgate. [Obs.]
--Dryden.
Gelding \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).
Gelding \Geld"ing\, p. pr.,
, & v
n. from Geld, v. t.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 13c. (as a surname), from Old Norse geldingr, from gelda "castrate" (see geld (v.)).
Wiktionary
n. 1 a castrated male horse 2 any castrated male animal 3 (context archaic English) a eunuch vb. (present participle of geld English)
WordNet
n. castrated male horse
Wikipedia
A gelding is a castrated horse or other equine, such as a donkey or a mule. Castration, as well as the elimination of hormonally driven behavior associated with a stallion, allows a male horse to be calmer and better-behaved, making the animal quieter, gentler and potentially more suitable as an everyday working animal. As a verb, "gelding," or "to geld," refers to the castration procedure itself.
Usage examples of "gelding".
Removal of the male member and testes against apicial gelding, on this one game on the Board of Origin.
Lord Jaufre and his party of grooms, austringers, and spaniels just outside the village, Melyssan saw that even the earl had exchanged his formidable black stallion for a quiet roan gelding.
Cerryl slipped the glass into the saddlebag and remounted, easing the gelding up beside Hiser and riding beside the young subofficer to the head of the column headed back to the southeast.
After easing the gelding through the carriage gate, Cerryl tied his mount to a hitching post under the overhanging front eaves of the stable and dismounted.
A lean Kandori with a large pearl in her left ear and silver chains across her chest sat her saddle calmly, gloved hand folded on the pommel, maybe still unaware that her gray gelding and her wagon teams alike would be put into the lottery once she was into the city.
Poole, and then going over on most Wednesdays to see how they were getting on - a practice interrupted only by his horse playing the fool and coming down with him on a slippery piece of road near Gromwell, a foolish caper that resulted in a broken collar-bone and the replacement of the sprightly gelding by the serious-minded grey mare.
But before she could go on Harry Mellow reined in his rangey gelding beside the cart.
The only sound Rawhead understood from the mouth of the man was this sound he was hearing now, this high-pitched shriek that always attended a gelding.
Strynn wandered off to confirm, leaving Avall to reacquaint himself with the mount he rode when riding was necessary: a sturdy gelding named Tarnish.
So Kaspar sat astride a decent, if not memorable, gelding, who could probably make the long journey to the City of the Serpent Riverso long as enough rest, food, and water were found along the way.
No doubt they appeared a strange sight: a tall, broad-shouldered man outfitted like a common man-at-arms and carrying a swaddled baby on his back but riding a noble gelding whose lines and tackle were fit for a prince, and a woman whose exotic features might make any soldier pause.
Lantern in hand, Tobe led Peachblossom down first, then asked the gelding to keep going.
And then Hawkes came, astride a Waler mare that he had borrowed, leading an Arab gelding.
With a slight turn of his hand, Webb neck-reined the gelding away from the opened door and Lilli.
The gelding chanked on the metal bit as Webb sighted on the cow and squeezed the trigger.