pigsticking

Verb

pigstick (third-person singular simple present pigsticks, present participle pigsticking, simple past and past participle pigsticked or pigstuck)

1. To stab.
   • But if he goes (I always looked things in the face) I suppose I'll get to the Front, too, and do me best to pigstick someone in baggy breeches that I never saw or heard of before […]1894, Henry Lawson, Henry Lawson, the Master Story-teller: Prose Writings, page 883

   Synonyms:

   jab, run through, chef, chib, ching, chive, enthrill, foin, gore, gride

2. (obsolete) To hunt pigs.
   • There were generally enough, however, to pigstick with, hunt jackals, or even wolves at times, and "lark" over the steeplechase course which he had constructed round the* four hundred acre indigo field that was close to the house.1883, Matthew Horace Hayes, Indian Racing Reminiscences, page 154

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Noun

pig-sticking (countable and uncountable, plural pig-stickings)

1. (India, colloquial, dated) The hunting of boars.
   • Swankey of the Body Guard himself, that dangerous youth, and the greatest buck of all the Indian army now on leave, was one day discovered by Major Dobbin tête-à-tête with Amelia, and describing the sport of pig-sticking to her with great humour and eloquence […]1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair