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Definition of Baiting
1. Noun. Harassment especially of a tethered animal.
Definition of Baiting
1. Verb. (present participle of bait) ¹
2. Noun. A bloodsport involving the act of worrying or tormenting a chained or confined animal by setting dogs upon it. ¹
3. Noun. The act of luring, as into a trap. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Baiting
1. bait [v] - See also: bait
Lexicographical Neighbors of Baiting
Literary usage of Baiting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne: Taken from Original Sources by John Ashton (1882)
"Take bear and bull baiting. The former was dying out, and was no longer as popular
as it was during ... We learn something of a bear-baiting from Hudibras. ..."
2. Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly by John Brand (1849)
"BULL AND BEAR-baiting. FITZSTEPHEN mentions the baiting of bulls with dogs as a
diversion of the London youths on holidays in his time.1 The ancient law of ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1884)
"BULL-baiting. In former days many of the cottagers kept bulldogs, ... The last
bull-baiting is said to have occurred at tho Rush-bearing, 1824, ..."
4. Haydn's Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information Relating to All Ages by Joseph Haydn, Benjamin Vincent (1889)
"BULL-baiting or BULL-FIGHTING, ™s :in amusement at Stamford in the reign of John,
1209; ... A bill to abolish bull-baiting was thrown i out in the commons, ..."
5. Bygone England: Social Studies in Historic Byways and Highways by William Andrews (1892)
"baiting animals was a pastime by no means confined to the youth of the country.
There are many records of kings, queens, and the most learned men of bygone ..."
6. The Spirit of the Public Journals: Being an Impartial Selection of the Most by Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott (1803)
"BULL-baiting. / (Trom the Morning Chronicle.] SIR, CUCH of your readers as ...
It will next fall in his way to flate, historically, that bull-baiting was ..."
7. The Monthly Chronicle of North Country Lore and Legend (1889)
"Under the patronage of the Priors of Tynemouth, bull- baiting used to be common
at North Shields ; and the place where the poor animals were given over to ..."
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