Word Study
gelt (root: geld)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun gelt has 1 sense
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]
A gelding. Mortimer. [1913 Webster]
gelt, n.
Gilding; tinsel. Spenser. [1913 Webster]
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
For further exploring for "gelt" in Webster Dictionary Online