Sentence:  A witness to a <WSD>bearbait</WSD> in 1575 intriguingly describes the animal's struggle like a kind of dance, who "if he were ta'en once, then by what shift with biting, with clawing, with roaring, with tossing, and tumbling, he would work and wind himself loose from them." 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An instance of bearbaiting.