Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Bait used for fish or in fishing.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Here's a good example of what kind of ugly little fish-bait might come slithering out.
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Practically all of them are taken with a fish-bait either live or dead, and used stationary on the bottom or in mid-water trailed behind a boat.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
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It is a bottom feeder and will take a fish-bait either alive or dead; it is said occasionally to run at a spinning bait when used very deep.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
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Lieutenant-Colonel cross-examined old Pigey until his testimony looked like a box of fish-bait.
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Average Jones pushed the collection of advertisements aside and returned to the opening phase of the problem, the fish-bait circular which Robinson had mailed him.
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For rottenness sits in all the high places, and the white people feel that they are made mere fish-bait of, and that they have no civil rights under the domination of corn-field darkies, and army sutlers at the head of the State Government.
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Yesterday, while catching grasshoppers for fish-bait, I nearly griped one in my hand; indeed, I rather think I did gripe it.
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I know a liberal on the Sucker side: a really nice person, but pure fish-bait for the propaganda machine.
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Misguided politicians and environmentalists are starving out farmers and farm laborers just so they can feel a tingly sensation of saving fish-bait.
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Redsox, chowderhead, fish-bait, arrogant scab needs to shut up.
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