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- 1. the activity of hunting wild boar with a spear, carried out on horseback.
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- Pigsticking is a form of boar hunting done by individuals, or groups of spearmen on foot or on horseback using a specialized boar spear. The boar spear was sometimes fitted with a cross guard to stop the enraged animal driving its pierced body further down the shaft in order to attack its killer before dying.
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Boar hunting is the practice of hunting wild boar, feral pigs, warthogs, and peccaries. Boar hunting was historically a dangerous exercise due to the tusked animal's ambush tactics as well as its thick hide and dense bones rendering them difficult to kill with premodern weapons.
What does the noun pig-sticking mean? There are three meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun pig-sticking . See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
Oct 15, 2024 · pig-sticking. The ‘running down and spearing of a boar from horseback’ (Richard Holt, Sport and the British: A Modern History, 1989). This was a practice popular among the officer class of the British military in India in the 19th century.
Apr 3, 2013 · An ancient hunting ritual is making a comeback in modern Spain: the practice of hunting wild boar on horseback with spears — and no guns. The sport dates to Roman times, and was recently ...
Jan 22, 2013 · The day’s hunt, in a field where temperatures might be over 100˚F in the shade, would end at mid-day with a quick lunch, “plenty of cold beer,” and a long nap before an evening visit to the horse lines and then dinner in the mess tent where the men would talk about pig sticking.
May 8, 2013 · 'Pigsticking' is the practice of hunting wild boar on horseback with spears. The sport dates back to Roman times and is making a comeback in Spain. Animal rights activists are...
PIG - STICKING, or HOG-Hunting, the chase of the wild boar, as a sport, on horseback with the spear. The chase on foot was common among ancient peoples, and in central Europe has lasted to the present day, although, on account of the introduction of fire-arms, the spear has gradually become an auxiliary weapon, used to give the coup de grace to ...
