Definitions for bait

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bait bait

Spelling: [beyt]

IPA: /beɪt/

Bait is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 34 anagrams from letters in bait (abit).

Definitions for bait

noun

1. food, or some substitute, used as a lure in fishing, trapping, etc.
2. a poisoned lure used in exterminating pests.
3. an allurement; enticement:
4. an object for pulling molten or liquefied material, as glass, from a vat or the like by adhesion.
5. South Midland and Southern U.S. a large or sufficient quantity or amount: an excessive quantity or amount.
6. British Slang. food.

verb (used with object)

1. to prepare (a hook or trap) with bait.
2. to entice by deception or trickery so as to entrap or destroy:
3. to attract, tempt, or captivate.
4. to set dogs upon (an animal) for sport.
5. to worry, torment, or persecute, especially with malicious remarks:
6. to tease:
7. to feed and water (a horse or other animal), especially during a journey.

verb (used without object)

1. to stop for food or refreshment during a journey.
2. (of a horse or other animal) to take food; feed.

Origin of bait

1150-1200; Middle English bait, beit (noun), baiten (v.) Old Norse, probably reflecting both beita to pasture, hunt, chase with dogs or hawks (ultimately causative of bíta to Examples for bait

Johnson was stationed in the powder-magazine, in charge of the cord which held the bait.

The waters were full of fish, but they would not take the bait.

A whale swallowed this bait and then tried to escape as he felt the rope pulling him.

The Frisky took the bait, writing that “If famous works of art had been created today, they might have a whole different look.”

The gang does bait two officers with Noah, but another car comes tearing in and whisks them both away.

Robert went out into the garden, and dug some worms for bait.

“A lot of times the people who are being smuggled here are just being used as bait,” he says.

The question is whether any Republican senators will take the bait.

Give my horse a bait and a drink, I beg of ye, for I must get on my way.'

In November, Maine voters will vote on whether to ban using dogs, traps, and bait to hunt black bears in the Pine Tree State.