Chaff: alternatives and connections

Any substance, esp. food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, inclosure, or net.

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A husk; a pod; as, a peascod.

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To tread under foot; to trample.

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To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.

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To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.

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To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse.

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To tease or torment by presenting some good to the view and exciting desire, but continually frustrating the expectations by keeping that good out of…

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Very high or tall; as, a ship with taunt masts.

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To comb or card, as wool or flax.

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To vex by bringing to notice, or reminding of, a fault, defect, misfortune, or the like; to revile; to reproach; to upbraid; to taunt; as, he twitted…

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The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of…

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To address playful good-natured ridicule to, -- the person addressed, or something pertaining to him, being the subject of the jesting; to rally; as,…

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The external covering or envelope of certain fruits or seeds; glume; hull; rind; in the United States, especially applied to the covering of the ears…

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Full of life and mirth; jovial; joyous; merry; mirthful.

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A young goat.

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A shock of grain.

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The stem or main axis of a plant; as, a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp.

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To spread or scatter. See Strew, and Strow.

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The stumps of wheat, rye, barley, oats, or buckwheat, left in the ground; the part of the stalk left by the scythe or sickle.

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