rat-baiting
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rat-baiting
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From rat + baiting.
noun rat-baitings
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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.
Similar: ratting
Talk about this word "rat-baiting." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/rat-baiting. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. rat-baiting. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/rat-baiting "rat-baiting." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/rat-baiting.Cite this
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title = {rat-baiting},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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