Other forms: geldings
A gelding is a male horse that has been castrated. A quiet gelding, ride the gelding, a bay gelding.
Most working and riding horses are geldings, because an uncastrated stallion is difficult to keep near other horses. The operation is usually done in the first year or two. A mare is female and a stallion is an entire male.
1noungeldingA male horse that has been castrated.
“The farmer kept the stallion for breeding and sold the young gelding as a riding horse.”
gelding is a horse.
Old Norse geldingr comes from gelda, to castrate.
Old Norse
geldingr — wether, eunuch
Middle English
geldyng — eunuch
English, today
gelding
Built from
From Middle English geldyng (“eunuch”), from Old Norse geldingr (“wether, eunuch”), from gelda (“to castrate”). by surface analysis, geld + -ing.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA