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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GELT, pp. Castrated; emasculated.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Dutch & German geld & Yiddish gelt; all akin to Old English geld ²geld Date: circa 1529 money

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Gelt Gelt, n. [See 1st Geld.] Trubute, tax. [Obs.] All these the king granted unto them . . . free from all gelts and payments, in a most full and ample manner. --Fuller.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Gelt Gelt, n. [See Gelt, v. t.] A gelding. [Obs.] --Mortimer.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Gelt Gelt, n. Gilding; tinsel. [Obs.] --Spenser.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

Money, GERMAN.--Also, castrated.

Moby Thesaurus

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