Meaning of gelt | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A lunatic.
   rare
2. Gilding; gilt.
   obsolete
3. A gelding.
4. Money.
   uncountable, usually
5. Tribute; tax.
   uncountable, usually
6. Money, especially that given as a gift on Hanukkah or used in games of dreidel.
   Judaism, uncountable, usually
7. Chocolate candy in the shape of coins, usually wrapped in metallic foil, usually eaten on Hanukkah and often used for games of dreidel.
   Judaism, uncountable, usually

Examples

“She […] like a ghastly Gelt whose wits are reaved, / Ran forth in hast with hideous outcry […]”

“spay'd Gelts”

“That nothynge had / There of theyr awne / Neyther gelt nor pawne.”

“It amounts to not above 12000 Fr. Rhenish, yearly, in bare gelt.”

“The is no Gelt to be got.”

“I saw him at the house of my parents; I in my earliest youth, he approaching to fourscore. He was on his way to collect the Dominie's gelt; for the Dutch always took care the stipend to the minister should be competent, that so he never might be straitened 'to desire a gift.'”

“"And yet," said Captain Dalgetty, "my second and greatest difficulty remains behind; for, although I hold it a mean and sordid thing for a soldado to have nothing in his mouth but pay and gelt, like the base cullions, the German lanz-knechts, whom I mentioned before; […] yet, ex contrario, a soldier's pay being the counterpart of his engagement of service, it becomes a wise and considerate cavalier to consider what remuneration he is to receive for his service, […]”

“Have bought some farm land in Rio Grande Valley which should bring in a sizeable bundle of gelts come cotton picking time.”

“The miser, a-seeking lost gelt, / The doughboy, awaiting the battle, / May possibly know how I felt / While the long years dragged by as the dealer / As slow as the slowest of dubs, / Stuck out the last helping of tickets / 'Till I lifted—the Bullet of Clubs!”

“All these the king granted unto them […] free from all gelts [guilds] and payments, in a most full and ample manner.”

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