单词 | prebait |
释义 | prebaitv. transitive. To employ prebaiting in (a trap, area, etc.). Also intransitive. ΚΠ 1943 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-Amer. 21 Nov. 26/2 The Bureau of Rodent Control..recommended that farmers prebait tonight and Monday night, starve the rats Tuesday night, and poison them Wednesday night. 1963 J. H. Schnell in V. Schultz & A. W. Klement Radioecology v. 339 The traps were pre-baited with a mixture of peanut butter and grain four to seven days before actual trapping was undertaken. 1966 News Reporter (Hubbard, Ohio) 16 Feb. 6/4 It is not necessary to Prebait [sic] when using prepackaged poisons. 1990 Jrnl. Zool. 220 442 Traps were not prebaited. 1994 Coarse Fishing Today June 7/1 The chance to prebait some swims with a special bait in the certain knowledge that the fish can feed undisturbed. 2003 Sunday Express (Nexis) 8 June 89 Don't forget to prebait your chosen spot with stewed hemp seed a few days before. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1943 |
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