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
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
Mr. Cornwall, why don't you rebait your hook and try to catch something?
From Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight by Mathew Joseph Holt
And if, on inspection, the specimen acquired proved to be not the one sought, I should have to add it to the collection and rebait the trap.
From The Uttermost Farthing A Savant's Vendetta by R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman
