gilt

Etymology 1

Formed in English from the verb gild (“to cover in gold”). Compare gold and German Geld.

noun

1. (uncountable) Gold or other metal in a thin layer; gilding.
   1. (uncountable, by extension) Gold-colored paint or other coating.
2. (uncountable, slang) Money.
3. (countable, finance, UK) A security issued by the Bank of England (see gilt-edged).
   However, as asset prices slumped over the week – including UK government bonds, or gilts – those banks required more collateral to offset the pension funds’ liabilities, forcing the funds to dump assets and raise cash at short notice. 2022-09-29, Kalyeena Makortoff, Sarah Butler, “‘I’d never seen anything like it’: how market turmoil sparked a pension fund selloff”, in The Guardian
4. (obsolete, uncountable) A gilded object, an object covered with gold.
   The parysh of Seint Powle in Norwiche. Thomas Blocke, George Wylson, Churchwardens. Have sold in plate, gylte and parcell gylte, to the summe of iiij ownce, every ownce at the price of iiijs. viijd. 1864, “Returns of Church Goods in The Churches of the City of Norwich”, in Commission of 6 Edward VI, 1552, quoted in Norfolk Archaeology, Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society, page 371

adj

1. Golden coloured.
   The Jones man was looking at her hard. Now he reached into the hatch of his vest and fetched out a couple of cigars, everlasting big ones, with gilt bands on them. 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 10, in Mr. Pratt's Patients

verb

1. simple past and past participle of gild
   The sun was rising; it gilt the hill tops and gradually threw its lustre over the dark pine forests on the mountain slopes. 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 89

Etymology 2

From Middle English gilt, gylt, from Old Norse gyltr; compare geld and yelt.

noun

1. (UK, regional) A young female pig, at or nearing the age of first breeding.