What does "geld" mean?

Geld: To castrate; to emasculate.

Additional senses

  1. 2.To deprive of anything essential. Bereft and gelded of his patrimony. Shak.
  2. 3.To deprive of anything exceptionable; as, to geld a book, or a story; to expurgate. [Obs.] Dryden.

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