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Definition of Pigsticking
1. Noun. The sport of hunting wild boar with spears.
Definition of Pigsticking
1. n. Boar hunting; -- so called by Anglo-Indians.
Definition of Pigsticking
1. pigstick [v] - See also: pigstick
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pigsticking
Literary usage of Pigsticking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"... venation (literary); spec, chase, pigsticking, rabbiting, hawking, falconry,
etc. hurry, vt & i. 1. See HASTEN. 9. In a sense implying the feeling of ..."
2. Sport and Travel in India and Central America by A. G. Bagot (1897)
"THE first time that I made acquaintance with that most exciting of all Indian
sport, yclept pigsticking, I confess I was somewhat sceptical on the subject. ..."
3. The Nineteenth Century (1892)
"CAMP LIFE AND pigsticking IN MOROCCO THE sun was shining down brightly upon us,
as we left the hotel that stands outside the walls of white Tangier, ..."
4. Riding by Robert Weir, J. Moray Brown (1891)
"It is these brains that enable an Eastern horse to traverse in safety such ground
as he is often called on to gallop over in pigsticking (ground, ..."
5. Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and by Henry Yule, Arthur Coke Burnell, William Crooke (1903)
"... and describing the sport of pigsticking to her with great humour and
eloquence."—Vanity Fair, ii. 288. 1866.—"I may be a young pig-sticker, ..."
6. The Life and Opinions of Major-General Sir Charles Metcalfe MacGregor by Charles Metcalfe MacGregor (1888)
"I am just recovering from a severe sprain of my right wrist, contracted when out
pigsticking just a week ago. It will be well again soon, and directly it is ..."
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