lure

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However, it often appears that the way you impart action to the lure is the key to drawing a striker, especially in daytime.

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  1. noun Something that tempts or attracts with the promise of pleasure or reward.
  2. noun An attraction or appeal.
  3. noun A decoy used in catching animals, especially an artificial bait used in catching fish.
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  • This means his lure is running right across the grouper's porch and putting on an irresistible show in the process.
  • It's being used as a lure, in order to - well, lure Republicans to the farcically irresponsible and inevitably feckless trillion-dollar Keynesian stimulus plan, but with tax cuts like these, who needs socialism? —  RedState
  • His father disapproved of his acting ambitions, but the lure was too strong. —  Home | Mail Online
  • Henry Winterstern is a classic Hollywood tale: of this town's irresistible lure, the particular hunger it breeds and the hubris that so often leads to a sudden demise. —  GreenCine Daily
  • He developed in the early 19th century to toll, lure, and retrieve waterfowl.
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allure ·  bait ·  snare ·  wiles ·  attraction ·  fascination ·  seduction ·  temptation ·  glamour ·  compulsion ·  aura ·  trappings

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lure:   luring ·  lured ·  lures
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, of Germanic origin.

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  1. from Middle English lure (= Middle Dutch leure, loer, loeyer), from Old French loerre, leurre, earlier loirre, loitre, French leurre = Provencal loire = Italian logoro, a falconer's lure, from Middle High German luoder, German luder (later D. luder?), bait, decoy, lure.
  2. from Middle English luren (= Middle Dutch leuren, loren), from Old French leurrer, loirrer (= Provencal loirar), lure, from leurre, a lure: see lure, n.
  3. In Shetland looder (-horn); from Icelandic lūdhr = Norwegian Danish lur, a trumpet.
 

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