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Definition of Bait

Bait 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. A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment. A light or hasty luncheon. 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. To furnish or cover with bait, as a trap or hook. To stop to take a portion of food and drink for refreshment of one's self or one's beasts, on a journey. To flap the wings; to flutter as if to fly; or to hover, as a hawk when she stoops to her prey. Related Definitions: Alluring, Also, And, Any, Anything, As, Bait, Bear, Bull, By, Catching, Cover, Drink, Enticement, Fish, Flap, Flutter, Fly, Food, For, Furnish, Give, Harass, Hasty, Hawk, Her, Hook, Hover, If, In, Inclosure, Journey, Luncheon, Lure, Light, Net, Of, On, One, Or, Other, Portion, Prey, Provoke, Refreshment, Rest, Road, Self, She, Snare, Sport, Stop, Substance, Take, Taken, Temptation, The, Them, To, Torment, Trap, Upon, Used, When, Which, With

Bait Quotations Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Ralph Waldo Emerson Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it. Thomas Jefferson When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain. Mark Twain I think the bait for doing something really is always the part. Sam Waterston In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait. Les Brown

Bait Translations bait in Dutch is aas, lokaas bait in Italian is adescamento, esca bait in Spanish is aliciente, cebo bait in Swedish is agn (om fisk), bete, hetsa

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