Usually means: Hunting wild boars with spears.
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  1. pigsticking: Merriam-Webster
  2. pigsticking: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pigsticking: Collins English Dictionary
  4. pigsticking: Vocabulary.com
  5. pigsticking: Wiktionary
  6. pigsticking: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. pigsticking: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. pigsticking: Dictionary.com
  9. pigsticking: Rhymezone
  10. pigsticking: FreeDictionary.org
  11. pigsticking: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. pigsticking: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. pigsticking: Medical dictionary

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  1. pigsticking: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Pigsticking)

▸ noun:  Alternative form of pig-sticking [(colloquial, dated, India, Anglo-Indian) The hunting of boars.]

Similar:
pigging, sucking pig, piggy, pigsty, piggin, pigpen, sticking, pigface, pigskin, piggish, more...

Opposite:
bullfighting, bull riding, rodeo

Types:
jousting, lancing, tilting, tournament, more...

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Similar:
pigging, sucking pig, piggy, pigsty, piggin, pigpen, sticking, pigface, pigskin, piggish, more...

Opposite:
bullfighting, bull riding, rodeo

Types:
jousting, lancing, tilting, tournament, more...



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