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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024bait /beɪt/USA pronunciation n. - [uncountable] something, esp. food, used as a lure in fishing or hunting.
- something that tempts or entices: [uncountable]used a beautiful woman as bait to trap the spy.[count;
usually singular]:used the low price as a bait to get me to sign a deal.
v. [ ~ + obj] - Sportto prepare (a hook or trap) with bait:baited the mouse trap with cheese.
- to set dogs upon (an animal):Baiting bears is cruel.
- to torment, esp. with vicious remarks:Hecklers baited the speaker.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024bait (bāt),USA pronunciation n. - food, or some substitute, used as a lure in fishing, trapping, etc.
- a poisoned lure used in exterminating pests.
- an allurement;
enticement:Employees were lured with the bait of annual bonuses. - Metallurgyan object for pulling molten or liquefied material, as glass, from a vat or the like by adhesion.
- Dialect Terms[South Midland and Southern U.S.]
- a large or sufficient quantity or amount:He fetched a good bait of wood.
- an excessive quantity or amount.
- British Termsfood.
v.t. - Sportto prepare (a hook or trap) with bait.
- to entice by deception or trickery so as to entrap or destroy:using fake signal lights to bait the ships onto the rocks.
- to attract, tempt, or captivate.
- to set dogs upon (an animal) for sport.
- to worry, torment, or persecute, esp. with malicious remarks:a nasty habit of baiting defenseless subordinates.
- to tease:They love to bait him about his gaudy ties.
- to feed and water (a horse or other animal), esp. during a journey.
v.i. [Archaic.] - to stop for food or refreshment during a journey.
- (of a horse or other animal) to take food;
feed.
- Old Norse, probably reflecting both beita to pasture, hunt, chase with dogs or hawks (ultimately causative of bíta to bite; compare bate3) and beita fish bait
- Middle English bait, beit (noun, nominal), baiten (verb, verbal) 1150–1200
- 11.See corresponding entry in Unabridged badger, heckle, pester.
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