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nounrat-baiting (countable and uncountable, plural rat-baitings)
plural rat-baitings
- countableuncountableA 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 SocietySynonyms: ratting
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nounA blood sport involving the setting of dogs upon rats in a rat pit.
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