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Define the word gelt

"Gelt" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"

Gelt \Gelt\, n. [See 1st Geld.]
   Trubute, tax. [Obs.]
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         All these the king granted unto them . . . free from
         all gelts and payments, in a most full and ample
         manner.                                  --Fuller.
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"Gelt" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"

Gelt \Gelt\, n. [See Gelt, v. t.]
   A gelding. [Obs.] --Mortimer.
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"Gelt" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"

Gelt \Gelt\, n.
   Gilding; tinsel. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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"gelt" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"

gelt
     See geld

"gelt" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"

geld
     v : cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses); "the
         vet gelded the young horse" [syn: cut]
     [also: gelt]

"gelt" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"

gelt
     n : informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread, cabbage,
          clams, dinero, dough, kale, lettuce, lolly,
         lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels,
         simoleons, sugar, wampum]

"gelt" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"

35 Moby Thesaurus words for "gelt":
   blunt, boodle, brass, bread, bucks, cabbage, chips, dinero, dough,
   filthy lucre, gilt, grease, green, green stuff, jack, kale,
   lettuce, loot, lucre, mazuma, moolah, mopus, oil of palms,
   ointment, oof, ooftish, rhino, rocks, shekels, simoleons,
   spondulics, sugar, the needful, tin, wampum