Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The practice of baiting or attacking bulls with dogs, a sport formerly very popular in England, but made illegal in 1835.
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Examples
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They will know of the saloon only in the pages of history, and they will think of the saloon as a quaint old custom similar to bull-baiting and the burning of witches.
Chapter 38 2010
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Near the top, the bear- and bull-baiting rings lie shrouded in darkness.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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The novel has it all: an ingenious plot, ceaseless suspense, villains galore, tipsy priests, a bull-baiting, a stag hunt, several murders, the horrors of war, a brooding sense of evil and a glittering portrait of a fascinating age.
Chasing justice in Henry VIII's England Patrick Anderson 2011
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Near the top, the bear- and bull-baiting rings lie shrouded in darkness.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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The novel has it all: an ingenious plot, ceaseless suspense, villains galore, tipsy priests, a bull-baiting, a stag hunt, several murders, the horrors of war, a brooding sense of evil and a glittering portrait of a fascinating age.
Chasing justice in Henry VIII's England Patrick Anderson 2011
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Who would have thought, for example, that dogs could be bred for sheep-herding skills, or ‘pointing’, or bull-baiting?
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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Who would have thought, for example, that dogs could be bred for sheep-herding skills, or ‘pointing’, or bull-baiting?
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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“Long life to the noble Captain!” cried the soldiers, as impatient to see the duel, as if it had been a bull-baiting.
The Monastery 2008
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Many improvements and luxuries were introduced in the course of these five-and-forty years in the general manner of living; but cock-fighting, bull-baiting, and bear-baiting, were still the national amusements; and a coach was so rarely seen, and was such an ugly and cumbersome affair when it was seen, that even the Queen herself, on many high occasions, rode on horseback on a pillion behind the Lord Chancellor.
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In the early seventeenth century staves were used in the ‘sport’ of bull-baiting, where dogs were set against bulls.
Origin of Familiar Phrases William Harryman 2007
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