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lure

See also: Lure and lurĕ

English

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Some fishing lures

Etymology 1

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From Anglo-Norman lure, from Old French loirre (Modern French leurre), from Frankish *lōþr, from Proto-Germanic *lōþr-, perhaps ultimately related to *laþō (“invitation, calling”), or from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂- (“to hide”). Compare English allure, also from Old French. Probably related to German Luder (“bait”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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lure (plural lures)

  1. (also figurative) Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure.
  2. (fishing) An artificial bait attached to a fishing line to attract fish.
  3. (falconry) A bunch of feathers attached to a line, used in falconry to recall the hawk.
  4. A velvet smoothing brush.[1]
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Verb

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lure (third-person singular simple present lures, present participle luring, simple past and past participle lured)

  1. (transitive) To attract by temptation, appeal, or guile.
    Synonym: entice
    • 2012, Kate Bassett, “Mid-Seventies Onwards: Operatic beginnings and The Body in Question”, in In Two Minds: A Biography of Jonathan Miller, London: Oberon Books Ltd, →ISBN, page 219:
      It had been sixteen years since the BBC’s Grace Wyndham Goldie wrote her internal memo about luring him back to make sociological/scientific TV programmes. Now a second note had circulated, from the science department, proposing that he should present the Corporation’s next educative megaseries.
    • 2014, Michel Clasquin-Johnson, What is the difference between a research professor and a professor?:
      Professor is what you become after teaching for twenty to thirty years. Research Professor is what you then want to become, so you can finally stop worrying about students and do the research that lured you into academia in the first place!
  2. (transitive) To attract fish with a lure.
  3. (transitive, falconry) To recall a hawk with a lure.
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Icelandic lúðr.

Noun

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lure (plural lures)

  1. (music) Alternative form of lur

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  1. ^ Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Lure”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes II (GAS–REA), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology 1

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Adjective

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lure

  1. definite singular of lur
  2. plural of lur

Etymology 2

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From Middle Low German luren.

Verb

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lure (imperative lur, present tense lurer, passive lures, simple past lurte, past participle lurt, present participle lurende)

  1. to deceive, trick
  2. to lurk
  3. to wonder (på / about)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology 1

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Adjective

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lure

  1. definite of lur
  2. plural of lur

Etymology 2

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Verb

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lure (present tense lurar or lurer, past tense lura or lurte, past participle lura or lurt, present participle lurande, imperative lur)

  1. Alternative form of lura

Old French

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Etymology

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From Frankish *lōþr, from Proto-Germanic *lōþr-, perhaps ultimately related to *laþō (“invitation, calling”), or from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂- (“to hide”).

Noun

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lure oblique singular, f (oblique plural lures, nominative singular lure, nominative plural lures)

  1. lure (bunch of feathers attached to a line, used in falconry to recall the hawk)

Descendants

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  • English: lure

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