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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)  
1.
To castrate; to emasculate.
2.
To deprive of anything essential. "Bereft and gelded of his patrimony."
3.
To deprive of anything exceptionable; as, to geld a book, or a story; to expurgate. (Obs.)






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... first gelt religion or Churchliuings had bin first gelt himselfe or neuer liued, Cardinall Wolsey is the man I aime at, Qui in suas ponas ingeniosus erat, first gaue others a light to his owne ouerthrow. How it prospered with him and his instruments that after wrought for ...
— The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton - With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse • Thomas Nash



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