Bait is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BAIT in dictionary:

VERB:
• to set a trap etc. with food
• deliberately annoy or taunt (someone)
• cause dogs to attack (a trapped or restrained animal)
• put bait on (a hook) or in (a trap, net, or fishing area) to entice fish or animals
• 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.
• harass with persistent criticism or carping
• lure, entice, or entrap with bait
• attack with dogs or set dogs upon
• put a piece of food on or in (a hook or trap)
NOUN:
• food placed on a hook or in a net, trap, or fishing area to entice fish or other animals as prey
• something intended to entice someone to do something
• piece of food on a hook or in a trap to attract fish or animals
• anything that serves as an enticement
• something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to lure

Words related to BAIT

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Words that contain BAIT

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How to use BAIT in a sentence

• If a fox or a wolf could be lured to the point of touching a bait, it followed that the bait was eaten.
• The men here are mostly for the Government, and this year they have the bridge at Purple Springs for a bait.
• The reward of two thousand gold ducats was a tempting bait for desperadoes and others in need of coin.
• They followed the bait with their eyes as it sunk slowly down into the dark depths, among the logs, and roots, and trunks of trees, which were lying submerged in the water.
• He had scented a trap here and a bait there, and a dozen times, while dwelling on Dr.
• The bait I used was meat in an almost putrid condition.
• The young heir only shook his head soberly while he put a new bait on his hook and for a few minutes there was perfect silence.
• So greedy was he that he returned to the charge for the fourth time, seized the bait, and was this time successfully hauled on board.
• They commenced to bait him, those women he would not have wiped his feet on at home.
• He knows their habits better and the best kind of bait to use.
• Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
• I watched with breathless interest as a faint quiver nearer my bait showed where he was pushing his works.
• Even in those examples where beauty is the hook, grace is the bait, and virtue the line, with which hearts are caught.
• Its very prosperity proved a bait to the conqueror.
• He merely suggested that literary people bit at that kind of bait.
• We hoped that the citadel would provide bait to draw them and it did.
• But there are fish so silly that they will take the bait although they know the hook is there.
• Will knew, however, that his trap had worked, for the bait was gone, the cord pulled taut, and he could even detect traces of sharp claws around the spot.
• It was not so much the tempting bait of ready money that caught the Squire as the fact of his wishes being obeyed upon the instant.
• The bait is hung on a string from the top of the large box so that it may be seen and smelled from the outside.
• Large red worms, which were crawling on the ground, furnished bait.
• And this time with a very great effort she did succeed in swinging the bait by a gentle motion to the very spot.
• Elnora kept on setting bait for Catacolae and Sphinginae, which, unlike the big moths of June, live several months.
• For a second his look was upon her also, and it seemed to her in that moment that she and Burke had united cruelly to bait some desperate animal.
• On landing opposite the exit from the ford, our men held the cattle as they came out, in order to bait the next bunch.
• I threw out my line as I had so often seen others, and waited anxiously for a bite, moving the bait in rapid jerks on the surface of the water in imitation of the leap of a frog.
• The fear of punishment, and the hope of future reward, held out as a bait to the cowardly and the selfish, shall be of no avail when the object of my research is accomplished.
• Mateo watched the trap, while the others supplied beef for bait.
• A friend of mine, living near Colborne, told me rather an amusing story of a Yankee, who was fishing through the ice with the usual bait, a piece of pork.

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