▪ I. geldable, a.1 Hist.
(ˈgɛldəb(ə)l)
Also gildable.
[ad. med.L. (Domesday) geldābilis, f. geldāre: see geld v.2]
Liable to pay ‘geld’.
| 1610 Holland Camden's Brit. i. 605 Foure hundred thirty and one houses were thus Geldable. c 1630 Risdon Surv. Devon §315 (1810) 328 It..was geldable on all services, by land or sea. 1774 E. Jacob Faversham 28 All which lands and tenements are geldable by the Abbot. 1869 Molyneux Burton-on-Trent 39 There were then in the village six hides geldable. 1888 J. C. Atkinson in Whitby Gaz. 5 Oct. 3/7 The very large amount at which Whitby is returned as geldable in the Domesday record. |
Hence geldaˈbility.
| 1878 R. W. Eyton Key to Domesday 9 A geldability at only 2 hides was a benefaction to the extent of from 3000 to 4000 per cent. in favour of the Cornish Manor. |
▪ II. geldable, a.2 rare.
(ˈgɛldəb(ə)l)
[f. geld v.1 + -able.]
That may be gelded or castrated.
| 1611 Cotgr., Chastrable, geldable. 1727 in Bailey vol. II. 1846 in Worcester; and in mod. Dicts. |