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rat-baiting

rat-baiting

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Noun

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

  1. an illegal blood sport involving the setting of dogs upon rats in a confined space.
    • 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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