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rat-baitings

rat-baitings is the plural of rat-baiting.

Meaning of rat-baiting

Noun

rat-baiting (countable and uncountable, plural rat-baitings)

  1. A 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 Society
    Synonyms:
    ratting

Questions about rat-baitings

What is rat-baitings the plural of?
Rat-baitings is the plural of rat-baiting.

Words near rat-baitings in the dictionary

  1. rat-a-tat-tat
  2. rat-a-tat-tats
  3. rat-a-tats
  4. rat-arsed
  5. rat-baiting
  6. rat-baitings
  7. rat-bastard
  8. rat-bastards
  9. rat-bite fever
  10. rat-catcher
  11. rat-catchers

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