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Word entry · 7 letters

gelding

Best crossword clue

"Castrated stallion"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈɡɛldɪŋ/Part of speech nounSorted deggilnStarts with GEnds with G1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. castrated male horse

Word origin

From Middle English geldyng (“eunuch”), from Old Norse geldingr (“wether, eunuch”), from gelda (“to castrate”). By surface analysis, geld (“to castrate”) + -ing (diminutive suffix).

Used in a sentence

  • 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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