gelding

  • 11gelding — [[t]ge̱ldɪŋ[/t]] geldings N COUNT A gelding is a male horse that has been castrated …

    English dictionary

  • 12Gelding — ♦ A castrated horse. So far as warhorses and good riding horses were concerned, it is broadly true to say that though geldings were used by the Arabs and Tukrs and in Eastern Europe generally, they were little used in the West until the sixteenth …

    Medieval glossary

  • 13gelding — /ˈgɛldɪŋ / (say gelding) noun a castrated animal, especially a horse. {Middle English, from Old Norse geldingr wether} …

  • 14gelding — noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old Norse geldingr, from gelda Date: 14th century 1. a castrated animal; specifically a castrated male horse 2. archaic eunuch …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 15gelding — /gel ding/, n. 1. a castrated male animal, esp. a horse. 2. a eunuch. [1350 1400; ME < ON geldingr. See GELD1, ING3] * * * …

    Universalium

  • 16gelding — noun a) a castrated male horse b) any castrated male animal …

    Wiktionary

  • 17gelding — geld·ing gel diŋ n a castrated animal specif a castrated male horse * * * geld·ing (gelґding) a castrated male animal, especially a horse …

    Medical dictionary

  • 18gelding — Synonyms and related words: Houyhnhnm, altering, blank cartridge, brood mare, castration, castrato, charger, colt, courser, critter, dobbin, dud, emasculation, entire, entire horse, equine, eunuch, filly, fixing, foal, horse, impotent,&#8230; …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 19gelding — A male horse that has been castrated …

    Equestrian sports dictionary

  • 20gelding — geld|ing [ˈgeldıŋ] n a horse that has been gelded …

    Dictionary of contemporary English