Obs. or arch. [f. BULL sb.1 + BAIT sb.1 III.] = BULL-BAITING.

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1656.  W. Webb, in Digby Myst. (1882), Introd. 28. This Maior … would not suffer any … Bull-bait.

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1818.  in Knight, Once upon a Time (1859), 485. Whenever a bull-bait has taken place here.

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1876.  Bancroft, Hist. U.S., II. xxiv. 124. Bull-baits and cock-lights, were prohibited.

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  fig.  17[?].  Douglas Trag., iv. in Child, Ballads, I. 103/2. ‘O hold your hand, sweet William,’ she said, ‘Your bull baits are wondrous sair.’

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