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Roan vs Gelding - What's the difference?

roan | gelding |

As nouns the difference between roan and gelding

is that roan is an animal such as a horse that has a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in while gelding is a castrated male horse.

As an adjective roan

is especially of a horse, having a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in.

As a verb gelding is

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roan

English

Adjective

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  • Especially of a horse, having a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in
  • Made of the leather called roan.
    • roan binding

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An animal such as a horse that has a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in.
  • The color of such an animal.
  • A kind of leather used for slippers, bookbinding, etc., made from sheepskin, tanned with sumac and colored to imitate ungrained morocco.
    • (DeColange)

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    gelding

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a castrated male horse
  • any castrated male animal
  • (archaic) a eunuch
  • * Wyclif Bible, Acts viii. 38
    • They went down both into the water, Philip and the gelding , and Philip baptized him.

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