Crossword clues for lure
lure
- Fishing bait
- Fish's downfall, perhaps
- Fish tempter
- Angler's attachment
- A fly is a common one
- Trout's temptation
- Trout fly
- Sole attraction?
- Light, to a moth
- Item in a tackle box
- It attracts fish
- Fly on a line, e.g
- Fly in a lake
- Fishing-hat dangler
- Fishing implement
- Fishing attachment
- Fishing adjunct
- Fisherman's enticer
- Fisherman's attachment
- Fish enticement
- Fish attractor
- End-of-the-line item
- Be tempting
- Barker's job
- Bait on a fishing hook
- Attempt to tempt
- Angler's tempter
- Angler's enticement device
- Ad, basically
- Worm, frequently
- Wiggler or spinner
- Welcome with bedroom eyes
- Use a worm in the water
- Try to draw
- Thing on a bob
- Thing in a tackle box
- The fly in fly-fishing, e.g
- Tackle part
- Tackle box selection
- Something at the end of the line
- Plunker or spinner
- Plastic worm, e.g
- Plastic worm, at times
- Plastic fly in a lake
- Plastic bait in a tackle box
- Piece of artificial bait to attract a fish
- Part of an angler's arsenal
- One might attract mullets
- Neon sign, e.g
- Minnow's role
- Metaphorical carrot
- Loss leader, e.g
- Item at the end of the line
- It might be at the end of the line
- It may be found at the end of the line
- Imitation fish food
- Hand-tied fly
- Garage sale ad, for some
- Game-fish enticer
- Free trial, perhaps
- Fly, to trout
- Fly, sometimes
- Fly, commonly
- Fly-fisherman's fly
- Fly or worm, at times
- Fly on the river, perhaps
- Fly on a lake, maybe
- Fly on a hook, e.g
- Fly in a river
- Fly fishing fly, e.g
- Flame, to a moth
- Fishline adjunct
- Fishing necessity
- Fishing line's enticement
- Fisherman's fly, e.g
- Fisherman's bait
- Fish's tempter
- Fish fly
- Fish deceiver
- Fish attraction
- Falconry requirement
- Fake fly
- Enticement to a trout
- Entice — bait
- Dropped handkerchief, perhaps
- Draw cleverly
- Dangler for an angler
- Certain fishing bait
- Carrot on a stick
- Bright-colored attachment to a fishing hook
- Bit of tackle
- Bait shop buy
- Attract, as fish
- Attract with a bait-and-switch
- Angling purchase
- Angling accessory
- Anglerfish's light, e.g
- Angler's selection
- Angler's fly, e.g
- Angler's colorful enticement to a fish
- Angler's artificial fly, e.g
- Angler's artificial bait
- Act the Pied Piper
- Act as bait
- Act as a siren
- Drawing card
- Bait with honey
- Entice into a trap
- Carrot, on occasion
- Tacklebox item
- Bait, sometimes
- Artificial bait used in fishing
- Fishing item
- Attraction, or attract
- Tackle box item
- Tempt
- Decoy, for instance
- Play the siren to
- Fisher's plug
- Come-on
- Angler's purchase
- Hook
- Siren song, e.g
- This might be at the end of the line
- Inducement
- Draw in
- What catnip is to a cat
- It's at the end of the line
- Bit of fishing gear
- Neon sign, e.g.
- It'll help you get a bite
- Tackle item
- It may be on the line
- Women's beauty magazine
- Bonus upon signing, e.g.
- Qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward
- Anything that serves as an enticement
- Device for Walton
- Act the siren
- Allmouth's attractant
- Fish bait
- Spoon or spinner
- Artificial fly
- Attract with bait
- Fly in a stream
- Seduce
- Inveigle
- Angler's fly, for one
- Use a coachman
- Angler's need
- Loss leader, e.g.
- Fishhook bait
- Beguile
- Trouter's artificial fly
- See 49 Across
- Entrap
- Fly-casting must
- Angler's choice
- Troller's roller
- Fisherman's decoy
- Item for a troller
- Flycaster's gadget
- Trouter's need
- Entice - bait
- Spinning bait in lake and river in Yorkshire
- Fishing bait left next to river
- Draw, as rule, after switching sides
- Tempt; bait
- Tempt government to swap sides
- Unerring Latin for 'small decoy'
- Lead on
- Fishhook attachment
- Fishing need
- Fishing aid
- Fishing tool
- Fishing line attachment
- Dangle a carrot in front of, so to speak
- Fishing device
- Fisherman's need
- Angler's buy
- Angler's accessory
- Work as a barker, e.g
- Angler's item
- Act the femme fatale
- Fishing decoy
- Angler's attraction
- Try to catch
- Trout tempter
- It may be at the end of the line
- Worm, often
- Dangling carrot, e.g
- Angler's gadget
- Angler's decoy
- Fly or worm, on occasion
- Fly fisherman's fly, e.g
- Fisherman's aid
- Carrot on a stick, e.g
- Angler's bait
- What a siren does
- Tackle-box item
- Play the temptress
- Fly, at times
- Fly on a hook, to bass
- Fly on a hook, perhaps
- Fishing ___ (artificial bait)
- Fisherman's gadget
- What barkers do
- What a siren does best
- Tackle box gadget
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lure \Lure\, v. i. To recall a hawk or other animal.
Lure \Lure\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lured; p. pr. & vb. n. Luring.] [OF. loirer, loirier, F. leurrer. See Lure, n.] To draw to the lure; hence, to allure or invite by means of anything that promises pleasure or advantage; to entice; to attract.
I am not lured with love.
--Piers
Plowman.
And various science lures the learned eye.
--Gay.
Lure \Lure\, n. [OF. loire, loirre, loerre, F. leurre lure, decoy; of German origin; cf. MHG. luoder, G. luder lure, carrion.]
A contrivance somewhat resembling a bird, and often baited with raw meat; -- used by falconers in recalling hawks.
--Shak.Any enticement; that which invites by the prospect of advantage or pleasure; a decoy.
--Milton.(Hat Making) A velvet smoothing brush.
--Knight.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., of hawks, also of persons, from lure (n.). Related: Lured; luring.
early 14c., "something which allures or entices, an attraction" (a figurative use), also "bait for recalling hawks," from Anglo-French lure, Old French loirre "device used to recall hawks, lure," from Frankish *loþr or some other Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *lothran "to call" (cognates: Middle High German luoder, Middle Low German loder "lure, bait," German Luder "lure, deceit, bait;" also Old English laþian "to call, invite," German laden).\n
\nOriginally a bunch of feathers on a long cord, from which the hawk is fed during its training. Used of means of alluring other animals (especially fish) from c.1700. Technically, bait is something the animal can eat; lure is a more general term. Also in 15c. a collective word for a group of young women.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure. 2 (context fishing English) An artificial bait attached to a fishing line to attract fish. 3 A bunch of feathers attached to a line, used in falconry to recall the hawk. 4 A velvet smoothing brush. vb. 1 To attract by temptation etc.; to entice. 2 To recall a hawk with a lure.
WordNet
n. qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward [syn: enticement, come-on]
anything that serves as an enticement [syn: bait, come-on, hook, sweetener]
something used to lure victims into danger [syn: bait, decoy]
v. provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion; "He lured me into temptation" [syn: entice, tempt]
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Lurë is a former municipality in the Dibër County, northeastern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Dibër. The population at the 2011 census was 1,096.
Old Lurë , Lurë Plain and Borie Lurë, are the three neighborhoods of Lurë. More villages are in the municipality of Lurë such as Krej Lurë, Pregj Lurë, Arrmall, Vlashe and Gur Lure. With an area of 1,280 hectares, the Lurë National Park is situated in the eastern side of the mountain massive of "Kunora e Lures". Its 14 icy lakes offer picturesque and attractive environments at an altitude of 1.350-1.720 m. Among the many lakes the one that stand out are the Big Lake (32 hectares), the Lake of Pines (13 hectares), the Black Lake (8 hectares) and the Lake of Flowers (4 hectares). In winter these lakes freeze.
Lure (foaled 1989) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse. Bred and owned by Claiborne Farm in Paris, Kentucky, he is a son of the leading stallion Danzig, who in turn was sired by Hall of Famer and prominent sire Northern Dancer. He was out of the mare Endear by another Hall of Famer, Alydar.
Trained by Shug McGaughey, Lure is best known as the turf racing specialist who won back-to-back runnings of the Breeders' Cup Mile (at Gulfstream Park in 1992 and at Santa Anita Park in 1993). After winning three graded stakes races in 1994, Lure returned to again compete in the Breeders' Cup Mile but finished ninth. He was then retired to stand at stud at Claiborne Farm and in 2004 was pensioned due to poor fertility.
Witch Of The Air (USA) and Yen (CAN) are two of his progeny.
Usage examples of "lure".
They continued yesterday the tense and prolonged process of attempting to lure Abies out of the cabin.
She had even tried to lure him into a kiss, but he had smoothly dodged her enticements, repeatedly foisting her off on Acer Loring.
Laa-queel had heard the afanc had learned to speak some human tongues and often lured sailors to their own deaths.
Laaqueel had heard the afanc had learned to speak some human tongues and often lured sailors to their own deaths.
Fishing the seething tide-race through the main channel at full spring tide, and shouting with excitement as the golden amberjack came boiling up in the wake, bellies flashing like mirrors, to hit the dancing feather lures, and send the Penn reels screeching a wild protest, and the fibreglass rods nodding and kicking.
Breen, head of the evaluation team, the one man, Gale had said, who could tell him why he had been lured to Auk House.
CHAPTER XXII THE LURE OF GOLD IT was afternoon when Lamont Cranston arrived at the Aureole Mine on what was supposed to be his first visit.
In the mornings, he could be seen in the yards with his falconers and austringers, swinging lures to bring half-trained birds back to the fist.
One of the austringers prepared his lure, a piece of meat attached to some duck feathers.
Again, Lennox, on oath, averred that, as they rode to Perth, James told him the story of the lure, the pot of gold.
I pulled my sweater over my head and backed off, placing myself behind Jack, hoping now to lure Beane between the two of us and give Jack the clear shot he needed.
He felt the devil was slipping hip wiggling and bebop rhythms into gospel, tempting groups and luring good Christians away from the Lord with the idea of making a fast buck.
She made the most of the brief fluid loquaciousness the razored acid bequeathed as lure and incentive.
Penrod Schofield and Roderick Bitts and Maurice Levy LURED GEORGIE INTO THE CELLAR AND HAD HIM BEATEN BY NEGROES!
He even caught the faint perfume of the bleep who had lured Woofer in.