rat-baiting

English

Etymology

From rat +‎ baiting.

Noun

rat-baiting (countable and uncountable, plural rat-baitings)

  1. A blood sport involving the setting of dogs upon rats in a rat pit.
    • 1937, Dixon Wecter, The Saga of American Society:
      His sporting enthusiasms had already embraced yachting, coaching, fencing, and spectatorship at boxing-matches, cock-fights, dog-fights, and rat-baitings.

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