gelding
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 7
Definition of gelding
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
-
A castrated male horse.
“Mr. Free also owned restaurants and bred horses. His bay gelding, Packett's Landing, won almost $800,000 in his five-year career in the late 1980's and early 1990's.”
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noun
-
A castrated male horse.
“Mr. Free also owned restaurants and bred horses. His bay gelding, Packett's Landing, won almost $800,000 in his five-year career in the late 1980's and early 1990's.”
- Any castrated male animal.
verb
- (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of geld
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Etymology
From Middle English geldyng (“eunuch”), from Old Norse geldingr (“wether, eunuch”), from gelda (“to castrate”). By surface analysis, geld (“to castrate”) + -ing (diminutive suffix).
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