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n. (plural of baiting English)
Usage examples of "baitings".
The Thames had no bridges, and hundreds of boats plied between London side and Southwark, where were most of the theatres, the bull-baitings, the bear-fighting, the public gardens, the residences of the hussies, and other amusements that Bankside, the resort of all classes bent on pleasure, furnished high or low.
Popular hostility, baitings and occasional beatings had forced even the most loyal of retainers to discard the visible trappings of servitude, at least in public.
I've seen through their baitings - have remained imperturbably serene and swallowed their studied insults.
Think of the condition of Russia during that time, with her brutal aristocracy and her drunken democracy, her murders on either side, her Siberian horrors, her Jew baitings and her corruption.