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Meaning of rat-baiting | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

A blood sport involving the setting of dogs upon rats in a rat pit.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“His sporting enthusiasms had already embraced yachting, coaching, fencing, and spectatorship at boxing-matches, cock-fights, dog-fights, and rat-baitings.”

CEFR level

C1

Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

See also

rat-bastard rat-bite fever rat-fall rat-folk rat-fuck rat-fucker