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esca

9.9

A small piece of food often used as bait

noun
/ˈɛskə/

Archaic

: comida

She offered a tiny esca to the bird perched on her window.

Examples

She prepared a delicious esca for the feast.
The fisherman used a shiny esca to lure the fish.
The sailors shared their last scraps of esca around the small fire before dawn.
In the old tale, the hunter placed a piece of esca to lure the fox.
The fisherman used a small piece of esca to lure the fish into his net.
For her dish, she selected fresh esca to enhance the flavor of the seafood.
In the old stories, the hunter would often use esca to attract game during his explorations.

Synonyms

meat

vsesca

∞ 1.0

The flesh of animals that people eat

is mainly a small lure used to attract animals not general human food

fish

vsesca

516 1.0

Meat from a water animal that people cook and eat

is a small lure used to attract animals rather than common edible flesh

bait

vsesca

111 1.0

Food put to attract fish or animals to catch them

is the archaic literary term used instead in older or formal writing

Surface Forms

esca singular

escas plural

Etymology

Esca comes from an old Latin word esca meaning 'food' or 'bait', so it was used for a small piece of food or bait used to feed or attract animals.