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Geld

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To castrate (a horse, for example).

v. To deprive of strength or vigor; weaken.

n. A tax paid to the crown by English landholders under Anglo-Saxon and Norman kings.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Money; notably:

v. To castrate a male (usually an animal).

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. Money; tribute; compensation; ransom.

v. To castrate; to emasculate.

v. To deprive of anything essential.

v. To deprive of anything exceptionable; ; to expurgate.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To castrate; emasculate: used especially of emasculating animals for economic purposes.

Hence To deprive of anything essential.

To expurgate, as a book or other writing.

In apiculture, to cut out old combs from (a hive) so that new ones may be built.

Gelded; castrated; rendered impotent.

Barren; sterile.

Not with young: as, a geld cow; a geld ewe.

Poor; needy.

n. A payment, tax, tribute, or fine: in modern histories and law-books in reference to the Anglo-Saxon period, chiefly in composition, as in Danegeld, wergeld or wergild, etc.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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

Word Usage

"That's gelt, Yiddish for dinero, not to be confused with geld, meaning "to castrate," though, come to think of it, that may be something to look at down the road for some impecunious serial inseminators who clog up the system."

Verb Form

gelded gelding gelds gelt

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

emasculate castrate demasculinise demasculinize

Variant

gelt

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

money tribute compensation ransom expurgate