bayt

English

Verb

bayt (third-person singular simple present bayts, present participle bayting, simple past and past participle bayted)

1. Obsolete form of bait.
   • 1841, Edward Wedlake Brayley, The history of Surrey (volume 1, part 2, page 294)

     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.

Anagrams

• Baty