Word Meanings - DECOY-MAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A man employed in decoying wild fowl.

Related words: (words related to DECOY-MAN)

• DECOYER
  One who decoys another.
• EMPLOYER
  One who employs another; as, an employer of workmen.
• DECOY-DUCK
  A duck used to lure wild ducks into a decoy; hence, a person employed to lure others into danger. Beau. & Fl.
• DECOY
  To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap; to insnare; to allure; to entice; as, to decoy troops into an ambush; to decoy ducks into a net. Did to a lonely cot his steps decoy. Thomson. E'en while fashion's brightest
• DECOY-MAN
  A man employed in decoying wild fowl.
• EMPLOYMENT
  1. The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed. 2. That which engages or occupies; that which consumes time or attention; office or post of business; service; as, agricultural employments; mechanical employments;
• EMPLOYEE
  One employed by another.
• EMPLOYE
  One employed by another; a clerk or workman in the service of an employer.
• EMPLOYABLE
  Capable of being employed; capable of being used; fit or proper for use. Boyle.
• EMPLOY
  implicate, engage; in + plicare to fold. See Ply, and cf. Imply, 1. To inclose; to infold. Chaucer. 2. To use; to have in service; to cause to be engaged in doing something; -- often followed by in, about, on, or upon, and sometimes by to; as:
• UNEMPLOYMENT
  Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
• UNEMPLOYED
  1. Nor employed in manual or other labor; having no regular work. 2. Not invested or used; as, unemployed capital.
• PREEMPLOY
  To employ beforehand. "Preëmployed by him." Shak.
• DISEMPLOYMENT
  The state of being disemployed, or deprived of employment. This glut of leisure and disemployment. Jer. Taylor.
• MISEMPLOYMENT
  Wrong or mistaken employment. Johnson.
• DISEMPLOY
  To throw out of employment. Jer. Taylor.
• MISEMPLOY
  To employ amiss; as, to misemploy time, advantages, talents, etc. Their frugal father's gains they misemploy. Dryden.