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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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"Gelt" Quotes from Famous Books



... man's father, and do him good with him! He cannot but think most virtuously, both of me, and the sender, sure, that make the careful costermonger of him in our familiar epistles. Well, if he read this with patience I'll be gelt, and troll ballads for master John Trundle yonder, the rest of my mortality. It is true, and likely, my father may have as much patience as another man, for he takes much physic; and oft taking physic makes a man very patient. But would your packet, ...
— Every Man In His Humor - (The Anglicized Edition) • Ben Jonson
... Hermann's Blut! Nie werde solches wahr! Erwache, alter deutscher Muth, Der Recht und Licht gebar! Erwache! sonder Rast und Ruh, Schlag' Jeden der dir droht, Und ruf' ihm deutsche Losung zu: "Sieg gelt' es, oder Tod!"[7] ...
— Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia • L. Muhlbach
... wonne all hys ordynnaunce and artylrye and mor ovyr all stuffe thatt he hade in hys ost with hym; exceppte men and horse ffledde nott but they roode that nyght xx myle; and so the ryche saletts, heulmetts garters, nowchys[17] gelt and all is goone with tente pavylons and all and soo men deme hys pryde is abatyd. Men tolde hym that they were ffrowarde karlys butte he wolde nott beleve it and yitt men seye that he woll to them ageyn. ...
— Charles the Bold - Last Duke Of Burgundy, 1433-1477 • Ruth Putnam


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