rat-baiting

noun

rat-baiting

noun

Etymology From rat + baiting.

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.1937, Dixon Wecter, The Saga of American Society:

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