bait
noun
food, or some substitute, used as a lure in fishing, trapping, etc.
rebait
-
a word derived from
bait.
Example Sentences
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Even if I didn’t rebait them, I knew I needed to move the pots around.
From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings
Patiently Matty had helped him to rebait his hook.
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
He hastened to rebait the hook and throw out the line.
From The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Velma Swanston Howard
The next trap was sprung and empty; the next held the body of a red squirrel, a nuisance always and good only to rebait the trap he springs.
From Rolf in the Woods by Ernest Thompson Seton
Sometimes one man ’tends dozens of holes, running this way and that as he sees he has a catch, to take the fish off, and rebait the hook.”
From Phil Bradley's Snow-shoe Trail The Mountain Boys in the Canada Wilds by Silas K. Boone
