n. [ Icel. gelding a gelding, akin to geldingr wether, eunuch, Sw. gälling gelding, Dan. gilding eunuch. See Geld, v. t. ] A castrated animal; -- usually applied to a horse, but formerly used also of the human male. [ 1913 Webster ]

They went down both into the water, Philip and the gelding, and Philip baptized him. Wyclif (Acts viii. 38). [ 1913 Webster ]

p. pr., a., & vb. n. from Geld, v. t. [ 1913 Webster ]