▪ I. gelder
(ˈgɛldə(r))
[f. geld v.1 + -er1.]
1. One who gelds or castrates (animals, etc.). Also in Comb., as dog-gelder, horse-gelder, sow-gelder.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 190/1 Geldere of beestys, castrator. 1598 Florio, Castracane, a dog gelder. 1655 Moufet & Bennet Health's Improv. (1746) 143 Even Nature hath deprived some things of that which Gelders cut away. 1699 W. Dampier Voy. II. i. 82 He agreed with an expert Gelder to castrate him. 1709 Brit. Apollo II. Supern. No. 4. 4/2 Escaping the Gelder when he was a Lamb. a 1722 Lisle Husb. (1752) 314, I sent for the gelder..to cut this bull. |
† 2. fig. (See geld v.1 2, 2 b.) Obs.
| 1564 Becon Wks. Pref. A vj, These impostors rather then pastors, minishers more truly than Ministers, gelders rather then elders. 1579 Fulke Heskins' Parl. 184 Heskins, the impudent falsifier, truncator, gelder..and lewd interpreter of Augustine. |
▪ II. gelder(s rose
obs. form of guelder rose.