gelding

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

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  • Alys followed at a more dignified pace while Reggie dismounted and tethered the gelding, then came through the gate. —  Mary Jo Putney - The Rake.htm
  • A gelding is a male horse that can't make babies,... because his balls are cut off His balls? —  XXXX
  • The gelding, at full gallop, leapt out over the awesome drop and then tipped headfirst, flinging Mikal from the saddle. —  David A
  • The gelding was a sorry mount for any cavalla man, let alone a lieutenant. —  forestmage
  • The buckskin gelding was a damn decent horse, he discovered, after making fifty miles the first day, which was asking a little much from both man and animal. —  AHMM,January-February2007
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  1. Middle English, from Old Norse geldingr, from gelda, to geld.

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  1. from Middle English gelding, a eunuch, a castrated horse, from Icelandic geldingr, masculine, a wether, a eunuch, from geldr, barren, + -ingr = Anglo-Saxon -ing = English -ing, a suffix denoting origin: see geld, a., and -ing.
 

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/ˈgɛldɪŋ/
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