英语释义
1. to castrate (an animal)
Some old-timers will tell you that the horse will grow better if you wait until he's older to geld him, but I've found this isn't the case …
— Practical Horseman
2. to deprive of a natural or essential part
the legislation was pretty much gelded by the time it was passed
3. the crown tax paid under Anglo-Saxon and Norman kings
4. to remove the testicles of (a male animal and especially a horse or bull)
5. castrate sense 1a