Definitions
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- adj. Not loaded with bait.
Etymologies
Examples
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On that note, despite trolls, my next draft for my Etruscan Dictionary project will be posted later on today unabated or is it 'unbaited'?
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Placing bait alters the normal patterns in deer movement, sometimes drawing deer from an unbaited property to one that is.
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What homeowner would set a mouse trap but leave it unbaited just to give the mice a chance?
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I think he caught a bluegill off the side of the boat with an unbaited hook.
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After several attempts, one of the officers - a keen angler - managed to catch one with an unbaited hook.
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Mr. Paradise had left his automobile back some way on the road and had walked to the place where he was accustomed to sit almost every day, holding an unbaited fish-line in the water while he stared at the river passing in front of him.
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And after that, Jack said nothing more on the question of unbaited traps.
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Jack was disposed to turn up his nose at the unbaited traps.
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Otters are taken in an unbaited trap, for they reject every kind of bait, This trap must be placed near his landing place, which will be found by carefully examining the edges of rivers or ponds, either by his spraints, his seal, or the remains of fish (for in whatever place he eats his plunder he always leaves the tail or hinder parts of the fish undevoured).
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Fish is recommended as bait for weasels, polecats, etc, although I think the best way of trapping such animals is to form an enclosure of brushwood, etc, in which peg down some live bird, leading two narrow pathways from it from each end and exactly opposite each other, in each of which place an ordinary steel trap, unbaited, concealed in as skilful a manner as possible.
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