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pigstick

American

[pig-stik] / ˈpɪgˌstɪk /

verb (used without object)

to hunt for wild boar, usually on horseback and using a spear.

pigstick British

/ ˈpɪɡˌstɪk /

verb

(intr) (esp in India) to hunt and spear wild boar, esp from horseback

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Other Word Forms

pigsticker noun

Etymology

Origin of pigstick

First recorded in 1890–95; pig ¹ + stick ¹

Example Sentences

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They know how, or they would be severally and separately and many times dead, but they do not, they do not indeed, know that animals who stand on one hind leg and beckon with all the rest, or try to pigstick in harness, are not trap-horses worthy of endearing names, but things to be pole-axed.

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