Definition of "geld"

geld¹

/ɡɛld/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural gelds
1. (chiefly archaic, dialectal or historical) Money.
  1. (Northern England) A payment.
  2. (historical) In particular, (money paid as) a medieval form of land tax.
verb
third-person singular simple present gelds, present participle gelding, simple past and past participle gelded
1. (historical) To tax geld.

/ɡɛld/

verb
third-person singular simple present gelds, present participle gelding, simple past and past participle gelded or gelt
1. (transitive) To castrate a male (usually an animal).
  Quotations
  "Poor old Topaz," said Mrs Flanders, as he stretched himself out in the sun, and she smiled, thinking how she had had him gelded, and how she did not like red hair in men.
  1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, pages 16–17
2. (transitive, figurative) To deprive of anything essential; to weaken.
noun
plural gelds
1. A female animal, such as a ewe or cow, that is not pregnant.