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4 lettersPronunciation /ɡɛld/Part of speech verbSorted deglStarts with GEnds with D0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses)

Word origin

From Middle English geld and reinforced by Medieval Latin geldum, both from Old English geld, ġield (“payment, tribute”), from Proto-West Germanic *geld, from Proto-Germanic *geldą (“reward, gift, money”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeldʰ- (“to pay”). Probably reinforced by gelt (which see), see Norwegian Bokmål gjeld (“debt”), Danish gæld (“debt”). Geld is also written gelt or gild, and as such found in wergild, Danegeld, etc. Doublet of yield.

Used in a sentence

  • "Poor old Topaz," said Mrs Flanders, as he stretched himself out in the sun, and she smiled, thinking how she had had him gelded, and how she did not like red hair in men.
  • Camphor if smell'd A man will geld.

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