ground bait

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   bait scattered on the water to attract fish

   Broaderbait

Questions about ground bait

What does ground bait mean?

ground bait means "bait scattered on the water to attract fish".

Is ground bait a common word?

ground bait is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.