Search for crossword answers and clues
Worms and flies
Answer for the clue "Worms and flies ", 4 letters:
bait
Alternative clues for the word bait
Word definitions for bait in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Bait is the soundtrack to the 2000 action-comedy film, Bait . It was released on September 12, 2000 by Warner Bros. Records and featured a blend of hip hop and R&B music. The soundtrack wasn't much of a success, only making it to #49 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"food put on a hook or trap to lure prey," c.1300, from Old Norse beita "food," related to Old Norse beit "pasture," Old English bat "food," literally "to cause to bite" (see bait (v.)). Figurative sense "anything used as a lure" is from c.1400.
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?