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Definition of Baited
1. bait [v] - See also: bait
Lexicographical Neighbors of Baited
Literary usage of Baited
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Collections by Minisink Valley Historical Society, Connecticut Historical Society (1882)
"baited at Andover. Got over the Ferry to Haverill about Sun-set. ... Carried half
a Bushel of Oats with us to Kingston, where we baited ; there we took ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1856)
"The following is a copy of bill, sent to a gentleman from an inn in Essex, where
he had left his horse, with directions that it should be baited, ..."
3. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England: To which is Added an by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1826)
"... baited) aid where. And hv this general; ahdi indulgence, he took the opportunity
to wait ... baited ..."
4. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.: Secretary to the by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1855)
"But the house so full there was no getting in there, so forced to go through an
alehouse into the pit, where the bears are baited; and upon a stool did see ..."
5. The New York Times Current History (1918)
"[English Cartoon] The Wailers at the Wall —Westminster Gazette. 567 [English
Cartoon] The baited Peace Trap ..."
6. Herodotus: A New and Literal Version from the Text of Baehr, with a by Herodotus, Henry Cary, Johann Christian Felix Bähr (1852)
"When the fisherman has baited a hook with the chine of a pig, he lets it down
into the middle of the river, and holding a young live pig on the brink of the ..."
7. The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White, George Christopher Davies (1890)
"When a boy, I have known twenty in a morning caught with snap mouse-traps, baited
with tallow or suet . It will also pick holes in apples left on the ground ..."
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