7 letters · 10 points in Scrabble
noun castrated male horse
verb cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses)
originFrom Middle English geldyng (“eunuch”), from Old Norse geldingr (“wether, eunuch”), from gelda (“to castrate”). By surface analysis, geld (“to castrate”) + -ing (diminutive suffix).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0