Lure vs Yure - What's the difference?
lure | yure |
Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure.
(fishing) An artificial bait attached to a fishing line to attract fish.
A bunch of feathers attached to a line, used in falconry to recall the hawk.
* 1594 , , IV. i. 178:
A velvet smoothing brush.
To attract by temptation etc.; to entice.
To recall a hawk with a lure.
deceive, trick
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* {{quote-book, year=1891, author=Kate Sanborn, title=Adopting An Abandoned Farm, chapter=, edition=
, passage=I've heard of yure old lot. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1919, author=Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, title=Joy in the Morning, chapter=, edition=
, passage=But as soone as you can come to yure loving own girl--ROBINA." }}
(Yorkshire, Lancashire) hair
* {{quote-book, year=1862, author=Edwin Waugh, title=Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Aw know'd him when his yure stickt out at top ov his hat; and his shurt would ha' hanged eawt beheend, too,--like a Wigan lantron,--iv he'd had a shurt. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1898, author=John Hartley, title=Yorkshire Lyrics, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Her skin wor all a deep blue black, / Her yure , a dark braan red. }}
As nouns the difference between lure and yure
is that lure is something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure while yure is (yorkshire|lancashire) hair.As a verb lure
is to attract by temptation etc; to entice.As a determiner yure is
.lure
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(en noun)- (Milton)
- My falcon now is sharp and passing empty, / And till she stoop she must not be full-gorged, / For then she never looks upon her lure .
- (Knight)
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yure
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