equicides

Noun

equicide (countable and uncountable, plural equicides)

1. 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...1852 July, R. M. Richardson, “Men, Manners, and Mountains. Mounting the Righi, in Three Heats.”, in Sartain’s Magazine, volume XI, number 1, page 23, column 1
2. 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...1840 June, Dragsman, “Another Chapter on Driving”, in The Sportsman (Second Series), volume II, number VI, London: […] the Office, […], page 407