gelding
太監;去勢的馬
geld·ing /ˈgɛldɪŋ/ 名詞
閹畜
Geld v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gelded or Gelt (░); p. pr. & vb. n. Gelding.]
1. To castrate; to emasculate.
2. To deprive of anything essential.
Bereft and gelded of his patrimony. --Shak.
3. To deprive of anything exceptionable; as, to geld a book, or a story; to expurgate. [Obs.]
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Geld·ing n. 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).
Geld·ing, p. pr., a., & vb. n. from Geld, v. t.
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gelding
n : castrated male horse