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baitless

adj

Etymology

From bait + -less.

  1. derived from *bʰeyd-✻ — “to cleave, split, separate”
  2. derived from *baitō✻ — “that which is bitten, bait”
  3. derived from beita — “food, bait”
  4. inherited from bayte
  5. suffixed as baitless — “bait + less”

Definitions

  1. Without bait.

    • With baitless hooks, the catchers rely upon their speed and agility to flick the skipjack aboard as they snap at the glittering hooks.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for baitless. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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