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▪ I. gelder|ˈgɛldə(r)|
[f. geld v.1 + -er1.]
1. One who gelds or castrates (animals, etc.). Also in Comb., as dog-gelder, horse-gelder, sow-gelder.
c1440Promp. Parv. 190/1 Geldere of beestys, castrator. 1598Florio, Castracane, a dog gelder. 1655Moufet & Bennet Health's Improv. (1746) 143 Even Nature hath deprived some things of that which Gelders cut away. 1699W. Dampier Voy. II. i. 82 He agreed with an expert Gelder to castrate him. 1709Brit. Apollo II. Supern. No. 4. 4/2 Escaping the Gelder when he was a Lamb. a1722Lisle Husb. (1752) 314, I sent for the gelder..to cut this bull.
†2. fig. (See geld v.1 2, 2 b.) Obs.
1564Becon Wks. Pref. A vj, These impostors rather then pastors, minishers more truly than Ministers, gelders rather then elders. 1579Fulke Heskins' Parl. 184 Heskins, the impudent falsifier, truncator, gelder..and lewd interpreter of Augustine.
▪ II. gelder(s rose
obs. form of guelder rose. |