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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A castrated animal, especially a male horse.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A castrated animal; specifically, a castrated horse.
  2. n. A castrated man; a eunuch.

Wiktionary

  1. n. a castrated male horse
  2. n. any castrated male animal
  3. n. archaic a eunuch
  4. v. present participle of geld.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A castrated animal; -- usually applied to a horse, but formerly used also of the human male.
  2. adj. from geld, v. t.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. castrated male horse

Etymologies

  1. From Old Norse geldingr, from gelda ("to castrate"), whence also English geld (Etymology 2). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old Norse geldingr, from gelda, to geld. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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