| gelding | 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)) Origin: Icel. Gelding a gelding, akin to geldingr wether, eunuch, Sw. Galling gelding, Dan. Gilding eunuch. See Geld. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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