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Baiting vs Bating - What's the difference?

baiting | bating |

As verbs the difference between baiting and bating

is that baiting is present participle of lang=en while bating is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun baiting

is a bloodsport involving the act of worrying or tormenting a chained or confined animal by setting dogs upon it.

As a preposition bating is

apart from; except.

baiting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A bloodsport involving the act of worrying or tormenting a chained or confined animal by setting dogs upon it.
  • The act of luring, as into a trap.

    • See also

    * bait * blood sport

    bating

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • Apart from; except.
  • * 1817 , (Walter Scott), Rob Roy , XIII:
  • *:‘There is but little I have heard from you which I did not expect to hear, and which I ought not to have expected; because, bating one circumstance, it is all very true.’