BodyLoad('s'); Results for cockfight On this page: Select Article Dictionary Britannica Concise Columbia Ency. Wikipedia Translations Or search: - The Web - Images - News - Blogs - Shopping Dictionary cockfight kÅk fÄ«t n. A fight between gamecocks, often fitted with metal gaffs, that is arranged as a spectacle. cockfighting cock fight ing ADVERTISEMENT Home Business Entertainment Food ... More... InitForm('lookup1','autodiv1','down'); Library Arts Business Entertainment Food ... Britannica Concise Encyclopedia cockfighting Contest in which gamecocks, often fitted with metal spurs, are pitted against each other. Fights are usually to the death. An ancient and widespread sport, cockfighting traditionally involves betting on single matches or a series of pairings. Though many countries have banned or restricted it, the laws are not always strictly enforced and illegal matches are often held privately. For more information on cockfighting , visit Britannica.com Columbia Encyclopedia cockfighting, sport of pitting gamecocks against one other. Though popular in ancient Greece, Persia, and Rome, cockfighting has been long opposed by clergy and humane groups. Massachusetts passed (1836) the first law in the United States forbidding cockfighting; England banned it in 1849. Cockfighting jousts take place in a small circular pit into which the gamecocksâspecially bred and trained for fightingâare placed beak to beak by their handlers and then released. A combatant wins when its opponent is unable to fight, or is killed. Metal spurs, occasionally attached to the fowl's natural spurs, make action deadlier. The sport is still popular in Latin America, Africa, Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and the Middle East, andâdespite its illegalityâparts of the United States. It is nearly always the focus of frenzied gambling, as anthropologist Clifford Geertz noted in his famous study on the Balinese cockfight (1973). | |
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