baiting (verb)

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• red-bait — verb Usage: often capitalized R Date: 1940 transitive verb to subject (as a person or group) to red baiting intransitive verb to engage in red baiting • red baiter noun, often capitalized R …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• race-bait — verb To engage in race baiting …   Wiktionary

• frown upon — verb To disapprove (of). Baiting fish is not illegal in this state, but strongly frowned upon. Syn: frown on, frown at …   Wiktionary

• red-bait — ˈredˌbāt verb Usage: often capitalized R Etymology: back formation from red baiter & red baiting, n. intransitive verb : to engage in red baiting indignantly pointed out that he had never Red baited in his life W.E.Shelton transitive verb …   Useful english dictionary

• Dingo — For other uses, see Dingo (disambiguation). Dingo Australian dingo Conservation status …   Wikipedia

• bait — 1 noun (singular, uncountable) 1 food used to attract fish, animals, or birds so that you can catch them: Worms make excellent fish bait. | take the bait (=eat it and be caught) 2 something used to make someone do something, buy something etc:… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• bait — [[t]be͟ɪt[/t]] baits, baiting, baited 1) N VAR Bait is food which you put on a hook or in a trap in order to catch fish or animals. 2) VERB If you bait a hook or trap, you put bait on it or in it. [V n with n] He baited his hook with pie... [V n] …   English dictionary

• scold — /skoʊld / (say skohld) verb (t) 1. to find fault with; chide. –verb (i) 2. to find fault; reprove. 3. to use abusive language. –noun 4. a person, especially a woman, who is habitually abusive: *the jolly life of their fathers, when scolds could… …  

• badger — I. noun Etymology: probably from badge; from the white mark on its forehead Date: 1523 1. a. any of various burrowing mammals (especially Taxidea taxus and Meles meles) of the weasel family that are widely distributed in the northern hemisphere b …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• Rat — Taxobox name = Rats fossil range = Early Pleistocene – Recent image width = 200px image caption = The common Brown Rat ( Rattus norvegicus ) regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Mammalia ordo = Rodentia superfamilia = Muroidea familia =… …   Wikipedia

• Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges National Park — The Gammon Ranges are part of the northern Flinders Ranges, immediately southwest of and adjacent to Arkaroola Sanctuary. They encompass some of the most rugged and spectacular country in South Australia.GeographyThe central ranges are of a… …   Wikipedia