English Dictionary

bearbait

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

An instance of bearbaiting. / Bait used to lure bears. / A person or animal that is not very useful or respected.

日本語の意味

熊をおびき寄せるための餌 / 熊を狩るためのおびき寄せの行為（熊狩り） / まったく役に立たない、または軽蔑されるような人物や動物

The old festival featured a bearbait that horrified many of the townspeople.

その古い祭りでは、熊と犬を戦わせる見世物が行われ、多くの町民を愕然とさせた。

意味（1）

An instance of bearbaiting.

Could any thing afford a stronger contrast to the grave and certainly severe study to which Elizabeth had habituated herself, than the vain and fantastic puerility of many of her recreations and habits, the unintellectual brutality of the bearbaits which she admired, or the gaudy and glittering pageants in which she delighted?

意味（2）

Bait used to lure bears.

I went first this morning to the carcass of the bison we had killed for bearbait ; I found a bear had been there, and had already had his breakfast.

意味（3）

A person or animal that is not very useful or respected.

The worst ones for straying, curiously enough, were three broken-down old “bearbaits,” which went by themselves, as is generally the case with the cast-off horses of a herd.

bearbaits （ plural ）