bearbaiting
the former practice of setting dogs to fight a captive bear.
Origin of bearbaiting
1Other words from bearbaiting
- bearbaiter, noun
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How to use bearbaiting in a sentence
It is also true that the New York Post practices the celebrity equivalent of bear-baiting.
Should MSNBC Fire Alec Baldwin and Martin Bashir? | Lloyd Grove | November 23, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTEven bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence.
The Puritan condemned bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
The Art of Stage Dancing | Ned WayburnFor some weeks the town of Smyrna had been witnessing something very like a bear-baiting.
The Skipper and the Skipped | Holman DayCer'don, the boldest of the rabble leaders in the encounter with Hu'dibras at the bear-baiting.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1 | The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.
He was a rigid puritan "of low morals," and very fond of bear-baiting.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1 | The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.
British Dictionary definitions for bear-baiting
(formerly) an entertainment in which dogs attacked and enraged a chained bear
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