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noun

Gelt n. Trubute, tax. (Obs.) "All these the king granted unto them... free from all gelts and payments, in a most full and ample manner."

Gelt n. A gelding. (Obs.)

Gelt n. Gilding; tinsel. (Obs.)

verb

Geld v. t. (past & past part. gelded or gelt; pres. part. gelding)

To castrate; to emasculate.

To deprive of anything essential. "Bereft and gelded of his patrimony."

To deprive of anything exceptionable; as, to geld a book, or a story; to expurgate. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Gelt'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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