equicide

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equicide

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From Latin equus + -icide.

noun equicides

  1. countable, uncountable The killing of a horse. Before him lay extended the brown body of a donkey, whose broken lariot and fixed eye told the tale. I thought for a moment that its hoof was moving; but before a word had passed, all was still.[…] / “Messieurs, it was not my fault. I told them at Weggis the animal was too small; but they forced him
  2. countable, uncountable One who or that which kills a horse. Fathers of families with corpulent wives and a numerous progeny, never heed the torture they impose upon the unhappy animal but they one and all crowd into the feeaton with a turn over seat and drive away with their families to Clapton, Hackney, Turnham Green or Bow—in short wherever their country b

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@misc{equicide_2026,
  title = {equicide},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/equicide},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}