bullbaiting

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | 331 words | Copyright

bullbaiting 17th-century amusement, particularly popular in England, in which trained dogs (bulldogs) attacked a tethered bull. Bullbaiting, along with bullrunning (in which the bull was run down and killed by humans), bearbaiting, cockfighting, and dogfighting, was prohibited in Great Britain by an act of Parliament in 1835.

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