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Gelding

Defined in 2 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910)

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

A castrated horse (see 2 Tex. App. 293), but not a mule. See 4 Pa. Diet. R. 172.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

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.