LekhoriLekhoriAny substance, especially food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, trap, or net.
attach bait to a hook
Food containing poison or a harmful additive to kill animals that are pests.
Anything which allures; something or someone used to lure or entice someone or something into doing something
One of the “girls” used in this way, Pamella Bordes, later spoke of being “part of an enormous group … used as sexual bait.”
To attract with bait; to entice.
To set dogs on (an animal etc.) to bite or worry; to attack with dogs, especially for sport.
to bait a bear with dogs
From Middle English bayte, bait, beite, from Old Norse beita (“food, bait”), from Proto-Germanic *baitō (“that which is bitten, bait”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to cleave, split, separate”)....
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To flap the wings; to flutter as if to fly; or to hover, as a hawk when she stoops to her prey.
Kites that baite and beate.