bait /bāt/

1. Food put on a hook to attract fish or make them bite
2. Any allurement or temptation
3. A rage (slang)
4. A refreshment, esp on a journey (archaic or dialect)
5. A stop for that purpose (archaic)

1. To set (a trap, etc) with food
2. To tempt
3. To feed (a horse, etc), esp on a journey (archaic)
4. To set dogs on (a bear, bull, etc)
5. To persecute, harass
6. To exasperate, esp with malice, tease

To take, or stop for, refreshment on a journey

baitˈer noun

baitˈing noun

baitˈfish noun

1. Fish used as bait
2. Fish that may be caught with bait

bait and switch

Another name for switch selling (see under switch)

rise to the bait

To do what someone else intends or suggests one should do

• vauncing
• vaunt
• vauntage
• vauntages
• vaunt-courier
• vaunt-couriers
• vaunted
• vaunter
• vaunteries
• vaunters
• vauntery
• unhangs
• unhappied
• unhappier
• unhappies
• unhappiest
• unhappily
• unhappiness
• unhappinesses
• unhappy
• unhappying
• unharbour
• unharboured
• unharbouring
• unharbours