Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Baiting-stock
subs. phr. (old).—A laughing-stock.
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1630. TAYLOR (‘The Water Poet’), Workes [NARES]. I a common reproach, a scorne, a bye-word, and BAYTING-STOCKE to the poysonous teeth of envy and slander.
