Sentence:  It was at one of these great centres of sport and geniality in the merry month of March that Hamish McTavish decided to espouse the widow McKie, and by way of making it a really big occasion he organised a mammoth <WSD>pigstick</WSD> to precede the event ... 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An event or gathering at which pigs are hunted for sport.