0 past simple and past participle of bait
1 to intentionally make a person angry by saying or doing things to annoy them:
Ignore him - he's just baiting you.
I suspect he was just baiting me.
2 to make dogs attack an animal for cruel entertainment:
In the past, bear-baiting was a common form of entertainment in the UK .
3 to put food on a hook (= curved piece of wire) or in a special device to attract and catch a fish or animal:
Two targets were baited with fresh liver and two with liver that had been aged for 14 days, as described previously, prior to deployment.
The number of manholes baited varies from year to year.
Inset shows the pattern of baited holes (filled circles) out of 36 holes (open circles) used during training.
Both traps in the fourth chambers were baited with hexane-treated septa.
All previous studies of blowfly aggregation have used traps baited with carrion.
Sampling was conducted using ground and baited arboreal pitfall traps, and yielded a total of 95 ant species.
The traps were cleaned, baited again and put out for the next night on the same place.
Captured mature females tended to leave blocks with unbaited traps in numerically larger proportions than blocks with baited traps (fig. 4a).
