Bate is valid Scrabble Word

Is bate a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is bate valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

4 letters word
6 points in Scrabble
7 points in WWF

Definitions for BATE in dictionary:

VERB:

to diminish, also BAYT
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
To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.
To allow by way of abatement or deduction.
To leave out; to except.
To remove.
To deprive of.
To remit or retrench a part; -- with of.

To waste away.
To attack; to bait.
To flutter as a hawk; to bait.
To steep in bate, as hides, in the manufacture of leather.
moderate or restrain; lessen the force of
flap the wings wildly or frantically; used of falcons
soak in a special solution to soften and remove chemicals used in previous treatments
(of hawks) to jump violently from a perch or the falconer's fist

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
Strife; contention.
See 2d Bath.
An alkaline solution consisting of the dung of certain animals; -- employed in the preparation of hides; grainer.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to reduce the force of
(of hawks) to jump violently from a perch or the falconer\'s fist
imp. of Bite.

Words related to BATE

bated8 bateless10 bates7 bating9 bayt9

How to use BATE in a sentence

Browne, the former Miss Bate of Boston could scarcely control her emotions.
The Ribbonmen war bate though, but not till after there was a desperate fight on both sides.
She could scarcely believe yet that she was not in a dream, or that it could really be she, Huldah Bate, to whom all this was happening.
It was the great war that was in it, the Siven Kings wid the King av Galway, anâ€™ bate him out oâ€™ the counthry intirely.
I am indebted for the following description of the method of working it to my friend, Mr William Bate, of Hayle.

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