(falconry, hunting, obsolete) A live bird to lure birds of prey or others of its kind into a trap. / (obsolete) Any lure, particularly in reference to people used as live bait.

(rare, obsolete, transitive) To serve as a decoy, to lure.

plural of stale

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of stale

(uncountable) The state or quality of being stale. / (countable) The result or product of being stale.

plural of staleness

In a stale manner. / (obsolete) of old; long since

simple past tense and past participle of stale

present participle of stale

(food industry) The process whereby bread goes stale.