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Brewer's: Bait
Food to entice or allure, as bait for fish. Bait for travellers is a “feed” by way of refreshment taken en passant. (Anglo-Saxon, bætan , to bait or feed.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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