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Bear-baiting
Bear-baiting is a blood sport involving the worrying or tormenting ( baiting) of bears.
Usage examples of "bear-baiting".
The bosun's mate brought the cat out of its red baize bag: nine hearty strokes, nine appalling falsetto screams of a shrillness and a volume enough to mark the day as quite uncommon, and to gratify that part of the ship's company which took pleasure in bull-baiting, bear-baiting, prize fighting, pillories, and executions - perhaps nine-tenths of those present.