geld
/geld/US // gɛld //UK // (ɡɛld) //
骟马,骟割,骟工
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v.有主动词 verb
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geld·ed or gelt, geld·ing.
- : to castrate.
- : to take strength, vitality, or power from; weaken or subdue.
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By 1086 the number of houses had decreased to 100, and of these 20 were in such a wretched condition that they could not pay geld.
One-third of the geld was paid to Geoffrey de Coutances, bishop of Exeter, who threw up the earthworks of the castle.
Well, she's heir of all this isle (for I will geld monster).
Come, knave, it were a good deed to geld thee, by Cock's bones!
One great purpose seems to mould both its form and its substance; it is a geld-book.
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