TO GO THROUGH THE OX-HOUSE TO BED, verb. phr. (old).—To be cuckolded; to wear HORNS (q.v.).
c. 1696. B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v. OX-HOUSE … of an old Fellow that marries a young woman.
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.
