Cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses)
To remove the testicles (and sometimes penis) of a male animal or to render the testicles unfunctional.
1 He'd had the vet geld the horse when it was a yearling.
2 What I need to do is geld him and send him to the Wall.
3 I had to hang the one and geld the other.
4 It's more like what happens sometimes after they geld hosses.
5 A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs.
6 The Caribbees were wont to geld their children, on purpose to fat and eat them.
7 If it's a stallion, we'll have to geld it.
8 Power came to him with travail and through toil, the geld of craft and of force.
9 Wherefore I would counsell you to geld him.
10 If any man slay another, let him make bot with a half leod - geld of 100 shillings.
11 A quiet owl stole by in the geld below, and vanished into the heart of a tree.
12 As he always showed a lot of potential, I decided not to geld him during the winter.
13 A dream of intercession to set against the nightmare that was about to geld and blind him.
14 The next historian, I suppose, will make James the First a hero, and geld Charles the Second.
15 Appleby's Cup preparation started many months before that, making the decision to geld Cross Counter at an early age.
16 Now my legislator-[ThePope who, as Montaigne has told us, took it into his head to geld the statues.
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