vbl. sb. [f. BULL sb.1 + BAITING.] The action of baiting a bull with dogs. (Cf. BULL-DOG.)

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1580.  Baret, Alv., B 1478. Bulbaitinges.

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1583.  Babington, Commandm., iv. (1637), 36. Gadding to this Ale or that, to this Bearbaiting and that bulbaiting.

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1652.  Let. fr. Madrid, in Proc. Parl., No. 170. The next day there was Bull-beating.

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1711.  Addison, Spect., No. 31, ¶ 2. The bull-baiting … cannot possibly be exhibited in the theatre, by reason of the lowness of the roof.

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1802.  Hist. Europe, in Ann. Reg., 168/2. The practise of bull-baiting was dying away of itself.

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