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 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.

Related terms

• ratting

See also

• rat-baiting on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:rat-baiting on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons