Crossword-Solution: BAIT 4 letters, 397 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Bait	v. i.	Any substance, esp. food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, inclosure, or net.
Bait	v. i.	Anything which allures; a lure; enticement; temptation.
Bait	v. i.	A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment.
Bait	v. i.	A light or hasty luncheon.
Bait	v. t.	To provoke and harass; esp., to harass or torment for sport; as, to bait a bear with dogs; to bait a bull.
Bait	v. t.	To give a portion of food and drink to, upon the road; as, to bait horses.
Bait	v. t.	To furnish or cover with bait, as a trap or hook.
Bait	v. i.	To stop to take a portion of food and drink for refreshment of one's self or one's beasts, on a journey.
Bait	v. i.	To flap the wings; to flutter as if to fly; or to hover, as a hawk when she stoops to her prey.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
BAIT	anagram	ABIT, BITA, TABI

We have 397 clues for the answer “BAIT”

Clue	Answers
"Fish or cut ___!"	1 answer
*Old West robber	1 answer
Lure on a hook for fish	1 answer
Lure for a fisherman	1 answer
A carrot, in cartoons	1 answer
A whole can of worms?	1 answer
A worm or an insect	1 answer
Act the troll	1 answer
Alluring Electric Guest song, with "The"?	1 answer
Angler's worm	1 answer
Angler's worms, e.g.	1 answer
Bug on a hook, maybe	1 answer
Can of worms, at times	1 answer
Can of worms, e.g.	1 answer
Can of worms, perhaps	1 answer
Can of worms, say	1 answer
Cast by Izaak Walton.	1 answer
Caster's supply	1 answer
Catfish coaxer	1 answer
Cheese in a mousetrap	1 answer
Cheese in a mousetrap, e.g.	1 answer
Cheese in a mousetrap, for example	1 answer
Cheese in a trap, say	1 answer
Cheese or peanut butter, in a mousetrap	1 answer
Cheese, for a mouse (peanut butter is actually more effective FYI)	1 answer
Cheese, for some	1 answer
Cheese, perhaps.	1 answer
Cheese, sometimes	1 answer
Chum, at a tackle shop	1 answer
Chum, e.g.	1 answer
Chum, for one	1 answer
Chum, for sharks	1 answer
Chum, often	1 answer
Chum, on a fishing trip	1 answer
Chum, sometimes	1 answer
Deliberately taunt	1 answer
Dew worm, e.g.	1 answer
Drake fly, often	1 answer
Draw with deception	1 answer
Draw with ill intent	1 answer
Dry fly, e.g.	1 answer
ENTICE prey	1 answer
Entice in a trap	1 answer
Enticement on a hook	1 answer
FOOD to entice prey	1 answer
Fish attracter	1 answer
Fish food, maybe	1 answer
Fish fooler	1 answer
Fish lure	1 answer
Fish or cut this	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

TEERA

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with BAIT (5)

When Jeff arrived, Tom accosted him; and “led up” warily to opportunities for remark about Becky, but the giddy lad never could see the bait.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993

Well, the days went along, and the river went down between its banks again; and about the first thing we done was to bait one of the big hooks with a skinned rabbit and set it and catch a catfish that was as big as a man, being six foot two inches long, and weighed over two hundred pounds.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993

And if what you say is true, you are entitled to protection." Duncan decided to bait Dobbs a bit more.

Terminal Compromise Winn Schwartau 1993

The barking and screaming of hundreds of baboons could mean naught else than that one or more of their number had fallen a victim to the allurements of the bait.

The Son of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

CHAPTER 12 I Receive a Visitor and Bait a Hook About five miles from Zenda--on the opposite side from that on which the Castle is situated, there lies a large tract of wood.

The Prisoner of Zenda Anthony Hope 1993

Quotes with BAIT (3)

Ginny, listen... I can't be involved with you anymore. We've got to stop seeing each other. We can't be together.""It's for some stupid noble reason isn't it?""It's been like... like something out of someone else's life these last few weeks with you. But I can't... we can't... I've got to do things alone now. Voldemort uses people his enemies are close to. He's already used you as bait once, and that was just because you were my best friend's sister. Think how much danger you…

J. K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

Mark Twain Notebook

Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

William Blake

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 447 times in crossword archives (1924–2025).