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third-person singular simple present bayts, present participle bayting, simple past and past participle bayted
Obsolete form of bait. quotations examples
In the sixth year of the reign of Henry the Eighth, several persons were "elected to bayt the bull," on Monday after the feast of St. Martin, or pay a penalty of 20s. each.
1841, Edward Wedlake Brayley, The history of Surrey (volume 1, part 2, page 294)