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Bait is a 1950 British crime film directed, produced and co-written by Frank Richardson from his own stage play. An Adelphi feature film, Bait stars Diana Napier , John Bentley , Willoughby Goddard and John Oxford. A gang steal some diamonds, sell them ...
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bait \Bait\ (b[=a]t), v. i. To stop to take a portion of food and drink for refreshment of one's self or one's beasts, on a journey. Evil news rides post, while good news baits. --Milton. My lord's coach conveyed me to Bury, and thence baiting ...
Usage examples of bait.
When they anchored in the deepest part of the channel, Hal dropped a hand line over the side, the hooks baited with crabs they had taken from their holes on the sandy beach.
Bellis felt faintly dismayed by exhaustion when she sat with Tanner Sack and the other engineers in the afternoon, but Aum continued without apparent difficulty, shifting his attention from the conceptual problems and philosophy of the avancs to practical issues of bait, and control, and capture of something the size of an island.
But will the Baas please remember that a gin bottle is not the only bait that the devil sets upon his hook.
But he made a mistake, Baas, that of coming back again, being drawn by his love of Sabeela, just as a fish is drawn by the bait on the hook, Baas.
The trout-line he had set out baited with cheese would probably catch a few cheese loving catfish.
Daniel took most of these in good humor, but Isaac, who suspected that Jack was baiting him, fumed quietly, like a beaker just tonged from a furnace.
She exchanged a twinkly look with Saturn: having a bit of harmless fun baiting the gager.
Several of the veteran fishermen were suddenly eager for his viewpoint on baiting, and on any number of other topics, at the local tavern where everyone hung out.
Pike asked, baiting the kid, who really should have known his history better than that.
Such baiting is one way to turn a borderline snert situation into a clear cut snert situation.
And keep them hooded, and their Churches, Like hawks from baiting on their perches, 1410 That, when the blessed time shall come Of quitting BABYLON and ROME, They may be ready to restore Their own Fifth Monarchy once more.
Greater men than Bonaventure would have taken the bait and been reeled in.
I promised him a double gratuity if he would take me to some village at hand, where he could bait his horses while I breakfasted.
Bill Crum were alive, he would be the one to have baited the trap for you.
And was Dorr now holding my hand because the idea baited some hook in her mind?