Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A castrated animal, especially a male horse.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A castrated animal; specifically, a castrated horse.
- n. A castrated man; a eunuch.
Wiktionary
- n. a castrated male horse
- n. any castrated male animal
- n. archaic a eunuch
- v. present participle of geld.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A castrated animal; -- usually applied to a horse, but formerly used also of the human male.
- adj. from geld, v. t.
WordNet 3.0
- n. castrated male horse
Etymologies
- From Old Norse geldingr, from gelda ("to castrate"), whence also English geld (Etymology 2). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old Norse geldingr, from gelda, to geld. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Specifically a full-grown male is called a gelding or stallion, the female is a mare.”
“Hey McCain08 – if the gelding is such a one man one woman kind of person, how to you explain the manner in which he dumped his first wife – because he wanted to be 25 not 40.”
“A coalition of horse advocates last month filed suit to block the U.S. Bureau of Land Management from castrating the stallions, also known as gelding.”
“The gelding was my father's pride and joy, and that summer was the first that I was given permission to practise manoeuvres on him.”
“The gelding was a black with three white feet and a proudly held head -- might even be Denmark stock -- but for some reason he didn't relish moving in company.”
“Temperamentally the gelding is a patient, plodding, beast of burden, and though under good grooming he may show considerable life, while under the control of his driver, he seldom shows any interest in other members of the horse family, either male or female, and in the pasture or on the ranch his neutral sex temperament is ever apparent.”
“The gelding was her first equine star when she formed Jive Pony in 2005, and they made their debut in a muddy field at another game fair.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“Sent to the sidelines following that effort, the gelding was a gate-to-wire winner of a July 5 Monmouth allowance last time out.”
“When we located the owner, she told us her gelding was a QH and I just couldn't believe it - I couldn't explain to her why, but his conformation was all wrong.”
“The gelding was a wide-margin winner on his reappearance at Wincanton, when he carried top weight in a handicap and hammered Mamlook by 10 lengths.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gelding’.
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Derby Day!
List of terms one could expect to hear or read in connection with the Kentucky Derby, or high-stakes horse racing in general. This is an open list.
morning line, filly, field, post, favorite, two-year-old, colt, three-year-old, lifetime starts, trained, trainer, owner and 91 more...
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horses
everything horses
horse, bay, bloodhorse, bloodstock, bolter, broncho, bronco, brumby, bucker, buckjumper, cob, cocktail and 200 more...
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AGRI - horse breeding
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Animal kings
crocodilian, lagomorph, ovine, bovine, lupine, minatory, arthropod, zoömimetic, nag, pronk, entomology, buffalo and 34 more...
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here, horsey!
horse-related words (sometimes several times removed from actual equines)
horse, donkey, mule, hinny, gelding, stallion, mare, hobby horse, clotheshorse, sawhorse, horseradish, equine and 28 more...
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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some-ing
king, offering, blessing, coping, earnings, trappings, breeding, during, offing, refreshing, sitting, outing and 208 more...
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Quaintnesses
For those who wish no words were ever forgotten
opprobrium, tedium, encomium, odium, ire, enmity, beguile, wile, brazen, popinjay, squit, hoity-toity and 1161 more...
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theastic's Words
cellar, stalemate, wrought, opal, tyrant, squelch, squab, linen, tartan, paisley, scope, siren and 395 more...
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Studying
parry, palliate, cadge, dissemble, bathos, arrogate, dilatory, ipso facto, ontogeny, recondite, specious, miasma and 90 more...
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Warp, Woof, Wimble
My favorite words.
prurient, locution, mondegreen, vaunted, lugubrious, larine, warp, woof, wimble, ineffable, pyknic, sodden and 114 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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equestrian
paddock, canter, bridle, stirrup, colt, foal, stallion, filly, mare, gelding, weanling, yearling and 10 more...
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charming words sung by Joanna Newsom
lateen, catenaries, dirigibles, taciturn, exhume, vestal, bedraggled, poetaster, keening, embarcadero, slack-jawed, straggly and 82 more...
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baby and neutered animal names
joey, cygnet, calf, kid, pup, cub, fledgling, duckling, fry, gosling, nymph, chick and 62 more...
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