Definition of "houghed" [houghed]

• Simple past tense and past participle of hough. (verb)

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• "MacLaren died, and about the same time his cattle were houghed, and his live stock destroyed in a barbarous manner."
• "There lies the trophy of my sword, that good grey gelding, whom I heartily wish upon his legs again, conditioning his master lay there houghed in his place."
• "And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and David houghed all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for a hundred chariots."