Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Gelding

Gelding , noun

[Icelandic gelding a gelding, akin to geldingr wether, eunuch, Swedish galling gelding, Danish gilding eunuch. See Geld, transitive verb]

A castrated animal; -- usually applied to a horse, but formerly used also of the human male.
They went down both into the water, Philip and the gelding, and Philip baptized him. — Wyclif (Acts viii. 38)

Gelding , p. pr., a., & vb. n.

from Geld, transitive verb