gelt (root: geld)

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Noun, Verb (usu participle)

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun gelt has 1 sense

gelt(n = noun.possession) boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum - informal terms for money;

is a kind of money

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CIDE DICTIONARY

gelt, n. [See 1st Geld.].

Trubute, tax. [1913 Webster]

"All these the king granted unto them . . . free from all gelts and payments, in a most full and ample manner." [1913 Webster]

gelt, n. [See Gelt, v. t.].

A gelding. Mortimer. [1913 Webster]

gelt, n.

Gilding; tinsel. Spenser. [1913 Webster]

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THESAURUS

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