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→‎Noun: #* Wyclif Bible, Acts viii. 38 #*: They went down both into the water, Philip and the '''gelding''', and Philip baptized him.
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#* Wyclif Bible, Acts viii. 38
#*: They went down both into the water, Philip and the '''gelding''', and Philip baptized him.


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Revision as of 22:01, 7 April 2013

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Norse (deprecated template usage) geldingr, from (deprecated template usage) gelda, whence also English (deprecated template usage) geld (Etymology 2).

Pronunciation

Noun

gelding (plural geldings)

  1. a castrated male horse
  2. any castrated male animal
  3. Template:archaic a eunuch
    • Wyclif Bible, Acts viii. 38
      They went down both into the water, Philip and the gelding, and Philip baptized him.

Translations

Verb

gelding

  1. Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "geld" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E.

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