What does "geld" mean?
Geld: To castrate; to emasculate.
Additional senses
- 2.To deprive of anything essential. Bereft and gelded of his patrimony. Shak.
- 3.To deprive of anything exceptionable; as, to geld a book, or a story; to expurgate. [Obs.] Dryden.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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