Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who castrates animals.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who gelds or castrates.

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  • noun One who gelds or castrates.

Etymologies

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geld +‎ -er

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Examples

  • Den endelige opphentings datoen vil bli bekreftet på en email som sendes tilbake til deg i løpet av de neste 2 timene. gelder kun Mandag-Fredag 07:00-16:00.

    From heaven to frustration Torill 2009

  • Den endelige opphentings datoen vil bli bekreftet på en email som sendes tilbake til deg i løpet av de neste 2 timene. gelder kun Mandag-Fredag 07:00-16:00.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Torill 2009

  • If you can tell how, you may sing this to the tune a sow-gelder blows.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • There needs no more, as [4990] Fredericus Matenesius well observes, but a crier to go before them so dressed, to bid us look out, a trumpet to sound, or for defect a sow-gelder to blow,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • But the first recorded instance of its being performed on a living woman occurred about 1500, when a Swiss pig-gelder operated on his own wife.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

  • They attempted making a tool of the sow-gelder's son, to enable them to carry on their mean plans, and sent him word, that nothing they could do for him in the parish should be wanting.

    On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions Samuel Felton

  • Next old Echepole, the sow-gelder, received a blow in his forehead from our Amazonian heroine, and immediately fell to the ground.

    A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman

  • April 30th the lilac blossomed; May 4th, the gelder rose, dogwood, redbud, azalea were in blossom.

    The Bloom of Monticello 1926

  • A stallion that yielded at last to the thongs and knife of the gelder.

    Faces 1900

  • The Philosophical Transactions, * [629] in the last century contain accounts of Cesarean section performed by an ignorant butcher and also by a midwife; and there are many records of the celebrated case performed by Jacob Nüfer, a cattle gelder, at the beginning of the sixteenth century.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

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