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Definition of "gelding" []

  • A castrated animal, especially a male horse. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "gelding" in a sentence
  • "Specifically a full-grown male is called a gelding or stallion, the female is a mare."
  • "Hey McCain08 – if the gelding is such a one man one woman kind of person, how to you explain the manner in which he dumped his first wife – because he wanted to be 25 not 40."
  • "A coalition of horse advocates last month filed suit to block the U.S. Bureau of Land Management from castrating the stallions, also known as gelding."