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Gelding

//ˈɡɛldɪŋ// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A castrated male horse.

    "Mr. Free also owned restaurants and bred horses. His bay gelding, Packett's Landing, won almost $800,000 in his five-year career in the late 1980's and early 1990's."

  2. 2
    castrated male horse wordnet
  3. 3
    Any castrated male animal.
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of geld form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English geldyng (“eunuch”), from Old Norse geldingr (“wether, eunuch”), from gelda (“to castrate”). By surface analysis, geld (“to castrate”) + -ing (diminutive suffix).

Etymology 2

From geld + -ing.

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