badger baiting

A so-called "sport" of a cruel character the setting of dogs to fight a badger and attempt to draw it from its hole. badger-coloured, a . Coloured like a badger (an epithet applied by Cowper to a cat). "A beast forth sallied on the scout, Long-back'd, long-tail'd, with whisker'd snout, And badger - coloured hide." Cowper: Mrs. Throckmorton's Bullfinch.