pigstick

[ pig-stik ]

verb (used without object)

1. to hunt for wild boar, usually on horseback and using a spear.

pigstick

/ ˈpɪɡˌstɪk /

verb

1. intr (esp in India) to hunt and spear wild boar, esp from horseback

Other Words From

• pigsticker noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of pigstick¹

First recorded in 1890–95; pig ¹ + stick ¹

Example Sentences

“I should pigstick her anyway. You’d thank me later.”

From Literature

“If we pigstick her, we’re rich. No more crew for life, right?”

From Literature

“What? You gonna fight me, boy? Try and pigstick me from behind the way your old man would?”

From Literature

Nailer would have been smarter to simply let Pima pigstick the girl and be done with it.

From Literature

They know how, or they would be severally and separately and many times dead, but they do not, they do not indeed, know that animals who stand on one hind leg and beckon with all the rest, or try to pigstick in harness, are not trap-horses worthy of endearing names, but things to be pole-axed.

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