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单词 gelder
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geldern.

Brit. /ˈɡɛldə/, U.S. /ˈɡɛldər/
Forms: see geld v.1 and -er suffix1.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: geld v.1, -er suffix1.
Etymology: < geld v.1 + -er suffix1.
Now historical. rare.
1. A person who castrates or spays (animals). horse-gelder: see the first element. See also sow-gelder n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > [noun] > castration or spaying > one who
libber14..
geldera1425
cutter1562
spaver1824
a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 1 Abesi, a geldere..of bestus.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 190 Geldere of beestys, castrator.
1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lxvi. 186 The kydneys whiche Gelders take awaye from a bytche..when they spaye hir.
1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. viii. 64 Even nature hath deprived some things of that which gelders cut away.
1709 Brit. Apollo: Supernumerary Paper July Escaping the Gelder when he was a Lamb.
a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 267 I sent for the gelder..to cut this bull.
1775 I. Fletcher Diary 15 July (1994) 304 Got the horse gelded in the evening..William Mokinson of Winscales was the gelder.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Cutter, a gelder.
1992 T. Enright tr. S. O'Crohan Day in our Life (1993) 63 He is the man appointed now by the Department of Lands to be the gelder of stallions and young sows.
2. figurative. A person who disempowers or weakens others. Cf. geld v.1 2a. Obsolete. Also (in quot. 1579): a person who mutilates or expurgates a book, quotation, etc. Cf. geld v.1 2c.
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society > communication > printing > publishing > publisher > [noun] > censor
gelder1564
purger1604
surveyor1663
press censor1853
smut-hound1927
1564 T. Becon Wks. Gen. Pref. sig. A.vi These impostors rather then pastors, minishers more truly than Ministers, gelders rather then elders.
1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 184 Heskins, the impudent falsifier, truncator, gelder..and lewd interpreter of Augustine.
1625 T. Middleton Game at Chæss sig. Cv The two inhuman enemies, the black Knights pawne, And the white Bishops, the gelder and the gelded.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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