Crossword clues for bait
bait
- Fish tempter
- Cheese in a mousetrap
- Angler's bucketful
- Angler's attachment
- Worms, sometimes
- Worms for fishing
- Worms and flies
- Worm, maybe
- Worm, at times
- Worm on the end of a hook
- Try to get a rise out of
- Try to entrap
- Sushi, to a outdoorsman?
- Sole tempter
- Sole attraction?
- Prepare a hook
- Night crawlers, to a fisherman
- Minnows, at times
- Justin Moore "___ a Hook"
- Good use for a can of worms
- Fly, in fly-fishing
- Fishing supply
- Fish or cut ____
- Fish enticement
- Deliberately taunt
- Chum, on a fishing trip
- Can of worms, perhaps
- Can of worms, e.g
- Angler's worms, e.g
- Angler's tempter
- ___ and switch (unethical business practice)
- ___ and switch
- Worms, perhaps
- Worms, maybe
- Worms, for anglers
- Worms or chum, perhaps
- Worm on a line
- Worm on a hook, for example
- Worm on a hook
- Worm on a fishing line, say
- Worm on a fishhook
- Worm for an angler
- What goes on a hook
- What a fisherman uses to attract a fish
- Wale song about fishing?
- Trap enticement
- Trap enhancement
- The last thing a fish might eat?
- Tempting stuff
- Tackle-shop item
- Switch companion
- Stuff used to entice fish
- Stuff used to entice
- Something that attracts a fish to a hook
- Part of a sting
- Old West robber
- Object of attention
- Minnows, e.g
- Metaphor for temptation
- Metaphor for an incentive
- Lake lure?
- It's stuck on a hook
- It lures fish
- Intentionally annoy
- Hooked night crawlers, e.g
- Hooked lure
- Hook material
- Food on a hook that attracts fish
- Food on a hook
- Fly, maybe
- Fishy road sign
- Fishhook worm, for example
- Fisherman's enticement
- Fisherman's chum?
- Fisherman's chum
- Fish's last meal?
- Enticement on a fishhook
- Dry fly, e.g
- Drawing card
- Dew worm, e.g
- Chum, often
- Chum, at a tackle shop
- Cheese, for some
- Catfish coaxer
- Casting need, often
- Caster's supply
- Can of worms, at times
- Bug on a hook, maybe
- Banner Pilot "Cut ___"
- An enticement
- Alluring Electric Guest song, with "The"?
- Act the troll
- A worm or an insect
- "Fish or cut ___"
- Respond to provocation online, as it were?
- Respond to provocation, as creature of the deep may do?
- Boat: is it there unexpectedly? React as intended
- Do what someone wants one to do
- Switch's partner
- Cheese in a mousetrap, e.g
- Prepare, as a hook
- Night crawlers, e.g.
- Fish food
- Torment with nasty remarks
- Enticement on a hook
- Fisherman's bucketful
- Flies and such
- Flies, maybe
- Tempting food
- Cheese in a mousetrap, e.g.
- Can of worms?
- Hook worm
- Grub, e.g.
- Lure on a line
- Can of worms, maybe
- Temptation on a hook
- Provoke
- Worms in a can, e.g.
- Worms, e.g.
- Wrigglers, to a fisherman
- Chum, e.g.
- Worms, for a fisherman
- Worms, to a fisherman
- Chum, at sea
- Worms, in fishing
- Setup for a switch
- Worms and such, to a fisherman
- Can of worms, say
- Trout's temptation
- *Old West robber
- Worm on a hook, e.g.
- Worm or fly
- Anything that serves as an enticement
- Something used to lure victims into danger
- Hook attachment
- Sea worms at times
- What a shark might take
- Attraction
- Dew worm, e.g.
- Decoy
- Chum, for one
- Night crawlers, e.g
- Goad
- Tease
- Fishing need, often
- It's on the hook
- Chum, sometimes
- "Fish or cut ___!"
- Inducement
- Minnows, e.g.
- Angler's need
- Lure for a ling
- Trap essential
- Come-on
- Tackle tidbit
- Worms, at times
- Homophone for 84 Across
- Worms or squids
- Fish or cut this
- Set a trap with food
- Lure; deliberately taunt
- Lure company of fliers with hanky-panky
- Portion including a carrot
- Badger trapper
- It's a bit fishy, but anglers buy it
- I must go in club that offers inducement
- Tempting food I introduced to club
- Used teeth to swallow a tempting item
- Fishhook attachment
- Fishing lure
- Flies, e.g
- Switch partner?
- Fisherman's need
- Angler's buy
- Angler's supply
- Angler's purchase
- Trout tempter
- Fisherman's lure
- Cut ___
- Chum, e.g
- Angling need
- Worm, often
- Grub, e.g
- Fish lure
- Worm on a hook, say
- Angler's lure
- Worms, e.g
- Fisherman's supply
- Worms, often
- Tantalizer on a hook
- Something attractive
- Sole food?
- Prepare to switch
- Night crawlers, often
- Fish's downfall, perhaps
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bait \Bait\ (b[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Baited; p. pr. & vb. n. Baiting.] [OE. baiten, beit[=e]n, to feed, harass, fr. Icel. beita, orig., to cause to bite, fr. b[=i]ta. [root]87. See Bite.]
To provoke and harass; esp., to harass or torment for sport; as, to bait a bear with dogs; to bait a bull.
To give a portion of food and drink to, upon the road; as, to bait horses.
--Holland.-
To furnish or cover with bait, as a trap or hook.
A crooked pin . . . baited with a vile earthworm.
--W. Irving.
Bait \Bait\ (b[=a]t), n. [Icel. beita food, beit pasture, akin to AS. b[=a]t food, Sw. bete. See Bait, v. t.]
Any substance, esp. food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, inclosure, or net.
Anything which allures; a lure; enticement; temptation.
--Fairfax.A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment.
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A light or hasty luncheon.
Bait bug (Zo["o]l.), a crustacean of the genus Hippa found burrowing in sandy beaches. See Anomura.
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
at Newmarket.
--Evelyn.
Bait \Bait\ (b[=a]t), v. i. [F. battre de l'aile (or des ailes),
to flap or flutter. See Batter, v. t.]
To flap the wings; to flutter as if to fly; or to hover, as a
hawk when she stoops to her prey. ``Kites that bait and
beat.''
--Shak.
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.
"to torment or goad (someone unable to escape, and to take pleasure in it)," c.1300, beyten, a figurative use from the literal sense of "to set dogs on," from the medieval entertainment of setting dogs on some ferocious animal to bite and worry it (the literal use is attested from c.1300); from Old Norse beita "to cause to bite," from Proto-Germanic *baitan (cognates: Old English bætan "to cause to bite," Old High German beizzen "to bait," Middle High German beiz "hunting," German beizen "to hawk, to cauterize, etch"), causative of *bitan (see bite (v.)); the causative word forked into the two meanings of "harass" and "food offered." Related: Baited; baiting.
"to put food on a hook or in a trap," c.1300, probably from bait (n.). Related: Baited; baiting.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 Any substance, especially food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, trap, or net. 2 food containing poison or a harmful additive to kill animals that are pests. 3 Anything which allure; a lure; enticement; temptation. 4 A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment. 5 A light or hasty luncheon. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To attract with bait; to entice. 2 (context transitive English) To affix bait to a trap or a fishing hook or fishing line. Etymology 2
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To set dogs on (an animal etc.) to bite or worry; to attack with dogs, especially for sport. 2 (context transitive English) To intentionally annoy, torment, or threaten by constant rebukes or threats; to harass. 3 (context transitive now rare English) To feed and water (a horse or other animal), especially during a journey. 4 (context intransitive English) Of a horse or other animal: to take food, especially during a journey. 5 To stop to take a portion of food and drink for refreshment during a journey. Etymology 3
vb. (context obsolete intransitive English) To flap the wings; to flutter as if to fly; or to hover, as a hawk when she stoops to her prey.
WordNet
n. anything that serves as an enticement [syn: come-on, hook, lure, sweetener]
something used to lure victims into danger [syn: decoy, lure]
v. harass with persistent criticism or carping; "The children teased the new teacher"; "Don't ride me so hard over my failure"; "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie" [syn: tease, razz, rag, cod, tantalize, tantalise, taunt, twit, rally, ride]
lure, entice, or entrap with bait
attack with dogs or set dogs upon
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Bait may refer to:
Bait is a 2000 comedy- crime film starring Jamie Foxx and David Morse. It was directed by Antoine Fuqua. The film was a huge financial failure, costing Warner Bros. $51 million but only grossing approximately $15 million.
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 Albums, but it did feature two fairly successful singles, Mýa's " Free" peaked at #42 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #52 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks, and also "Why Me?" by Cuban Link & Fat Joe.
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 on the black market to a buyer and then plan to steal them back again.
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?