Geld /(?)/

Geld

n.
  1. Money; tribute; compensation; ransom. [Obs.]

Geld

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Gelded; p. pr. & vb. n. 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.]