What does gun-broke mean?

gun-broke

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Frequency: 4.60 in modern English

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"But unless a horse is gun-broke, you better get off to shoot."
"He had had no time to wonder whether the horses were gun-broke, and it would probably have made very little difference if he had."
""Now ain't that a fool kid thing to do?" he cried. "Shooting a gun without asking you if your hosses was gun-broke? […]""

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