Geld"ing (?), n. [Icel. gelding a gelding, akin to geldingr wether, eunuch, Sw. galling gelding, Dan. gilding eunuch. See Geld, v. t.]
A castrated animal; -- usually applied to a horse, but formerly used also of the human male.
They went down both into the water, Philip and the gelding, and Philip baptized him.
Wyclif (Acts viii. 38).
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Geld"ing, p. pr. a. & vb. n..
from Geld, v. t.
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