1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 605 Foure hundred thirty and one houses were thus Geldable [L. erant domus CCCCXXXI quae geldabant].

a1640 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) §315 328 It..was geldable on all services, by land or sea.

1774 E. Jacob Hist. Faversham 28 All which lands and tenements are geldable by the Abbot.

1869 W. Molyneux Burton-on-Trent 39 There were then in the villages..six hides geldable.

1888 J. C. Atkinson in Whitby Gaz. 5 Oct. 3/7 The very large amount at which Whitby is returned as geldable in the Domesday record.

1937 Eng. Hist. Rev. 52 602 The gentlefolk and other people who held their lands by knight-service in the geldable part of Kent.

2007 Accounting Historians Jrnl. 34 90 The geldable lands could not provide sufficient sums to fund expensive continental wars.

1878 R. W. Eyton Key to Domesday 9 A geldability at only 2 hides was a benefaction to the extent of from 3000 to 4000 per cent. in favour of the Cornish Manor.

1955 J. E. A. Joliffe Angevin Kingship ix. 206 The heritable ‘Great Offices’..were sought for the protection, the immunity from geldability in all its incidents, as well as the dignity which they carried.

2012 Haskins Soc. Jrnl. 24 33 This statement of geldability..may be explained by the fact that manorial demesnes were normally exempt from payment of geld.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Chastrable, geldable.

1846 J. E. Worcester Universal Dict. Eng. Lang. Geldable, that may be gelded.