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08-27-2015, 04:48 PM
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Araucaria
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Google's Ngram viewer is your friend here: apparently people stopped
writing about baiting the horses
round about 1910.
I shall wait with bated breath (not the other kind) for a very old equestrian to confirm (or contradict) this.
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