Gelding
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
A horse that has been castrated, and which ls thus distinguished from the horse in his natural and unaltered condition. A "ridgling" (a half-castrated horse) is not a gelding, but a horse, within the denomination of animals in the statutes.
Brisco v. State, 4 Tex. App. 219, 30 Ain. Rep. 162.