pigsticking
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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While most young officers looked forward with keen anticipation to military life in India—polo, pigsticking and a host of servants—Churchill increasingly saw it as a political backwater he must avoid.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2019
Later Wavell returned to India for a spell of soldiering, pigsticking, horse racing, and Kiplingesque social doings at Peshawar.
From Time Magazine Archive
Polo players Winston Guest and George J. Atwell Jr., in pigsticking regalia, chased pigs, pretending they were boars.
From Time Magazine Archive
In pigsticking only well-grown boars are pursued, sows and immature boars being unmolested.
From The Jungle Girl by Gordon Casserly
For he and his companion were going as the guests of the Maharajah of Mandha for a day's pigsticking, as hunting the wild boar is termed in India.
From The Jungle Girl by Gordon Casserly
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