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Meanings of geld in English

Catalan
capar

Cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses)

capar

To remove the testicles (and sometimes penis) of a male animal or to render the testicles unfunctional.

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Examples for "cut"
Examples for "cut"
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Julian Barnes: 'Do you expect Europe to cut us a good deal?
The Guardian
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That study, which was published last year, used standard Crispr cut-and-paste technology.
Wired
3
Olmert cut short a visit to Europe on Wednesday and returned home.
Reuters
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The job cut will likely affect mainly foreign plants, the paper said.
Reuters
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Results: Radiologically, these three second tumors were clearly cut-end scar area recurrences.
Pubmed
Usage of geld in English
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He'd had the vet geld the horse when it was a yearling.
American empire: blood and iron
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What I need to do is geld him and send him to the Wall.
A feast for crows
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I had to hang the one and geld the other.
A Dance with Dragons
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It's more like what happens sometimes after they geld hosses.
IT
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A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs.
Boswell's Life of Johnson / Abridged and edited, with an introdu...
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The Caribbees were wont to geld their children, on purpose to fat and eat them.
An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 / MDCXC, Base...
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If it's a stallion, we'll have to geld it.
The red pony
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Power came to him with travail and through toil, the geld of craft and of force.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 07
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Wherefore I would counsell you to geld him.
The Golden Asse
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If any man slay another, let him make bot with a half leod-geld of 100 shillings.
A Source Book for Ancient Church History
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A quiet owl stole by in the geld below, and vanished into the heart of a tree.
Studies and Essays: Censorship and Art
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As he always showed a lot of potential, I decided not to geld him during the winter.
News.com.au
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A dream of intercession to set against the nightmare that was about to geld and blind him.
Imajica: Complete Edition
14
The next historian, I suppose, will make James the First a hero, and geld Charles the Second.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
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Appleby's Cup preparation started many months before that, making the decision to geld Cross Counter at an early age.
News.com.au
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Now my legislator-[ThePope who, as Montaigne has told us, took it into his head to geld the statues.
Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 15
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Translations for geld
Catalan
capar
Geld through the time