mahouting

Verb

mahout (third-person singular simple present mahouts, present participle mahouting, simple past and past participle mahouted)

1. (transitive) To drive (an elephant or elephants).
   • Word was passed down the river, the call going out for the bravest of Brul mahouting only the strongest of mounts.1984 August, Alan Dean Foster, chapter XI, in Voyage to the City of the Dead (A Del Rey Book), New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 151
2. (intransitive) To drive elephants.
   • First a team of six ponied pulling a miniature fire engine jumping with midget firefighters, then a dozen scantily mahouted elephants painted pink, came out of the arc light and sawdut into neon glow and mirroring asphalt.1957 July, Edward Wellen, “Sweet Dreams”, in Larry T[aylor] Shaw, editor, Infinity Science Fiction, volume 2, number 4, New York, N.Y.: Royal Publications, →OCLC, pages 67–68

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