rabbiting

English

Alternative forms

• rabbitting

Verb

rabbiting

1. present participle and gerund of rabbit

Noun

rabbiting (plural rabbitings)

1. A hunt for rabbits.
   • 1893, Alexander Hay Japp, Hours in My Garden: And Other Nature-sketches, page 90:

     Periodically there are rabbitings here, which usually yield a good result. Then all the normal life of the wood seems to be disturbed, paralysed. Not only the hunted rabbits, but the birds are scared, and go flying wildly in all directions; […]