From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
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They went down both into the water, Philip and the
gelding, and Philip baptized him. --Wyclif (Acts
viii. 38).
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Gelding \Geld"ing\, p. pr., a., & vb. n.
from Geld, v. t.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
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2. To deprive of anything essential.
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Bereft and gelded of his patrimony. --Shak.
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3. To deprive of anything exceptionable; as, to geld a book,
or a story; to expurgate. [Obs.] --Dryden.
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