Word Meanings - BADGERER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who badgers. 2. A kind of dog used in badger baiting.

BADGERING
1. The act of one who badgers. 2. The practice of buying wheat and other kinds of food in one place and selling them in another for a profit.
BADGER
An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another.
BAIT
1. Any substance, esp. food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, inclosure, or net. 2. Anything which allures; a lure; enticement; temptation. Fairfax. 3. A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken
BADGER STATE
Wisconsin; -- a nickname.
BADGERER
1. One who badgers. 2. A kind of dog used in badger baiting.
BADGER-LEGGED
Having legs of unequal length, as the badger was thought to have. Shak.
BADGER GAME
The method of blackmailing by decoying a person into a compromising situation and extorting money by threats of exposure.
BAITER
One who baits; a tormentor.
SARABAITE
One of certain vagrant or heretical Oriental monks in the early church.
WHITEBAIT
The young of several species of herrings, especially of the common herring, esteemed a great delicacy by epicures in England. A small translucent fish abundant at certain seasons on the coasts of China and Japan, and used in the same manner as
CADBAIT
See CADDICE