Baited vs Bailed - What's the difference?
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(bait)
Any substance, especially food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, trap, or net.
Food containing poison or a harmful additive to kill animals that are pests.
Anything which allures; a lure; enticement; temptation.
A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment.
A light or hasty luncheon.
To attract with bait; to entice.
To affix bait to a trap or a fishing hook or fishing line.
* Washington Irving
To set dogs on (an animal etc.) to bite or worry; to attack with dogs, especially for sport.
:to bait''' a bear with dogs; to '''bait a bull
To intentionally annoy, torment, or threaten by constant rebukes or threats; to harass.
To feed and water (a horse or other animal), especially during a journey.
*, Bk.V, Ch.ix:
*:And than they com into a lowe medow that was full of swete floures, and there thes noble knyghtes bayted her horses.
Of a horse or other animal: to take food, especially during a journey.
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*:King Cyrus , that he might more speedily receave news from al parts of his Empire (which was of exceeding great length), would needs have it tried how far a horse could in a day goe outright without baiting , at which distance he caused stations to be set up, and men to have fresh horses ready for al such as came to him.
To stop to take a portion of food and drink for refreshment during a journey.
*Milton
*:Evil news rides post, while good news baits .
*Evelyn
*:My lord's coach conveyed me to Bury, and thence baiting at Newmarket.
(obsolete) To flap the wings; to flutter as if to fly; or to hover, as a hawk when she stoops to her prey.
* Shakespeare
(bail)
Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.
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(legal, UK) Release from imprisonment on payment of such money.
(legal, UK) The person providing such payment.
A bucket or scoop used for removing water from a boat etc.
* Captain Cook
(obsolete) Custody; keeping.
* Spenser
To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail.
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(legal) To release a person under such guarantee.
(legal) To hand over personal property to be held temporarily by another as a bailment.
(nautical) To remove (water) from a boat by scooping it out.
* Capt. J. Smith
(nautical) To remove water from (a boat) by scooping it out.
* R. H. Dana, Jr.
To set free; to deliver; to release.
* Spenser
(slang) To exit quickly.
* 2010 September, Jeannette Cooperman, "Bringing It Home", , ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 62:
(informal) To fail to meet a commitment.
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A hoop, ring or handle (especially of a kettle or bucket) .
* 2010 , John M. Findley, Just Lucky ,
A stall for a cow (or other animal) (usually tethered with a semi-circular hoop) .
* 1953 , British Institute of Management, Centre for Farm Management, Farm Management Association, Farm Managememt , 1960, John Wiley,
* 2011 , Edith H. Whetham, Joan Thirsk, The Agrarian History of England and Wales , Volume 8: Volumes 1914-1939,
A hinged bar as a restraint for animals, or on a typewriter.
(chiefly, Australia, and, New Zealand) A frame to restrain a cow during milking or feeding.
* 2011 , Bob Ellis, Hush Now, Don't Cry ,
A hoop, ring, or other object used to connect a pendant to a necklace.
(cricket) One of the two wooden crosspieces that rest on top of the stumps to form a wicket.
(furniture) Normally curved handle suspended between sockets as a drawer pull. This may also be on a kettle or pail, as the wire bail handle shown in the drawing.
(rare) To confine.
(Australia, New Zealand) To secure (a cow) by placing its head in a bail for milking.
(Australia, New Zealand) To keep (a traveller) detained in order to rob them; to corner (a wild animal); loosely, to detain, hold up. (Usually with (up).)
* 2006 , Clive James, North Face of Soho , Picador 2007, p. 128:
As verbs the difference between baited and bailed
is that baited is (bait) while bailed is (bail).baited
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(head)Anagrams
*bait
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) bait, beite, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- (Fairfax)
Usage notes
Used in Geordie dialect of English to denote your lunch at work as opposed to other meals. Also used in East Anglian dialect of English to denote a small meal taken mid-morning while farming, and in the North of England to denote a snack taken by miners to eat while working.Derived terms
* baiting * flamebait * jailbait * shark baitReferences
* * * * *Verb
(en verb)- a crooked pin bailed with a vile earthworm
Usage notes
* This verb is sometimes confused in writing with the rare verb (bate), which is pronounced identically; in particular, the expression (with bated breath) is frequently misspelled *(term) by writers unfamiliar with the verb (bate).Etymology 2
From (etyl) baiten, beiten, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)See also
*Etymology 3
(etyl) battre de l'aile'' or ''des ailes , to flap or flutter.Verb
(en verb)- Kites that bait and beat.
Anagrams
* ----bailed
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* *bail
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(wikipedia bail)Etymology 1
From the (etyl) verb .Noun
(en noun)- The bail of a canoe made of a human skull.
- Silly Faunus now within their bail .
Derived terms
* jump bail * out on bailVerb
(en verb)- to bail''' cloth to a tailor to be made into a garment; to '''bail goods to a carrier
- to bail water out of a boat
- buckets to bail out the water
- to bail a boat
- By the help of a small bucket and our hats we bailed her out.
- Ne none there was to rescue her, ne none to bail .
Derived terms
* bailment * bailor * bailee * bail outEtymology 2
From a shortening of bail out, which from above.Verb
(en verb)- With his engine in flames, the pilot had no choice but to bail .
- The Teacher Home Visit Program takes a huge commitment—time, energy, patience, diplomacy. Quite a few schools have tried it and bailed .
Etymology 3
From (etyl) beyl, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)page 78,
- I reached across beneath the cow to attach a metal bail' to each end of the strap so that the '''bail''' hung about 5 inches below the cow's belly.While stroking and talking to the cow, I reached under and suspended the machine on the ' bail beneath the cow, with its four suction cups dangling to one side.
page 160,
- More recently, the fixed bail , sometimes called the ‘milking parlour’, with either covered or open yards, has had a certain vogue and some very enthusiastic claims have been made for this method of housing.
page 191,
- Ten men thus sufficed for the milking of three hundred cows in five bails , instead of the thirty men who would normally have been employed by conventional methods.
page 153,
- But until he had poured enough milk into the vat above the separator, I drove unmilked cows into the bail' where he had previously milked and released one. He moved from one '''bail''' to the other to milk the next one I had readied. I drove each cow into the empty ' bail , chained her in, roped the outer hind leg then washed and massaged the udder and teats.
Etymology 4
From (etyl) baillier.Verb
(en verb)- The transition over the rooftop would have been quicker if Sellers had not been bailed up by a particularly hostile spiritual presence speaking Swedish.