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GELDING

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Castrated male horse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("gelding" is a kind of...):

male horse (the male of species Equus caballus)

Derivation:

geld (cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses))

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb geld

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