What is "slaught"

Usage examples of "slaught".

Wherewith the Souldan all with furie fraught,Swearing, and banning most blasphemously,Commaunded straight his armour to be brought,And mounting straight vpon a charret hye,With yron wheeles and hookes arm'd dreadfully,And drawne of cruell steedes, which he had fedWith flesh of men, whom through fell tyrannyHe slaughtred had, and ere they were halfe ded,Their bodies to his beasts for prouender did spred.

There he him found enuironed aboutWith slaughtred bodies, which his hand had slaine,And laying yet a fresh with courage stoutVpon the rest, that did aliue remaine.

The Ja ck that t e lls us to stand and w atch a s a Catherine Genovese gets k n i f ed, the Jack that condones Vietnam because we don’t care to get i n volved, the Jack that watches the geno c ide of the Bla c k Panthers with righteous unconcern, the Jack who accepts a My Lai slaught er as the “fortunes of war,” the Jack that we need.