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rat-baiting

noun

Etymology

From rat + baiting.

Definitions

  1. A blood sport involving the setting of dogs upon rats in a rat pit.

    • 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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