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rat-baiting
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Etymology
Noun
rat-baiting (countable and uncountable, plural rat-baitings)
- A blood sport involving the setting of dogs upon rats in a rat pit.
- Synonym: ratting
- 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.
See also
rat-baiting on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Category:rat-baiting on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
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