'Gelding' definitions:
Definition of 'gelding'
(from WordNet)
noun
Castrated male horse
Definition of 'Gelding'
From: GCIDE
- Gelding \Geld"ing\, n. [Icel. gelding a gelding, akin to geldingr wether, eunuch, Sw. g[aum]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. [1913 Webster]
- They went down both into the water, Philip and the gelding, and Philip baptized him. --Wyclif (Acts viii. 38). [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Gelding'
From: GCIDE
- Gelding \Geld"ing\, p. pr., a., & vb. n. from Geld, v. t. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Gelding'
From: GCIDE
- 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[aum]lla, and cf. AS. gilte a young sow, OHG. galt dry, not giving milk, G. gelt, Goth. gilpa siclke.]
- 1. To castrate; to emasculate. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To deprive of anything essential. [1913 Webster]
- Bereft and gelded of his patrimony. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To deprive of anything exceptionable; as, to geld a book, or a story; to expurgate. [Obs.] --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'gelding'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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