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BAITING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does baiting mean?
• BAITING (noun)
The noun BAITING has 1 sense:
1. harassment especially of a tethered animal
Familiarity information: BAITING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Harassment especially of a tethered animal
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("baiting" is a kind of...):
harassment; molestation (the act of tormenting by continued persistent attacks and criticism)
Context examples
As these three brothers advanced towards him to carry out the Abbot's direction, the smile faded from the novice's face, and he glanced right and left with his fierce brown eyes, like a bull at a baiting.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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