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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Patiently Matty had helped him to rebait his hook.
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
Even if I didn’t rebait them, I knew I needed to move the pots around.
From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings
Then a lobsterman has to rebait his traps, and as he does that with rotten fish, it's not a sweet job.
From The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries by Francis Rolt-Wheeler
At first they almost invariably forgot in their excitement to take along the bait pail, which meant a second trip for one of them to rebait the hook.
From The Boy Scouts in A Trapper's Camp by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess
“Missed him,” grumbled the fisher, withdrawing his line to rebait with a pearly strip of mackerel.
From The Haute Noblesse A Novel by George Manville Fenn
