Unbaited

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8.]

  1.  Not baited or worried by dogs.

15[?].  J. Balnavis, ‘O Gallandis all,’ 86 (Bann. MS.). Ouer oft to hound in vnkowth ground, Thow ma tak vp vnbaittit.

1672.  in Picton, L’pool Munic. Rec. (1883), I. 341. a bull unbaited.

  2.  Not furnished with bait.

1880.  Carnegie, Pract. Trapping, 61. A sure way of catching this destructive little animal … is to cut a groove in some of the posts or gate posts, in which set an unbaited steel trap.

1905.  Macm. Mag., Dec., 90. Two rods dangled an unbaited hook and a bedraggled fly in the water.