lure

Meanings

Noun

• Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure.
• An artificial bait attached to a fishing line to attract fish.
• A bunch of feathers attached to a line, used in falconry to recall the hawk.
• A velvet smoothing brush.
• A trumpet with long curved tube, used for calling cattle, etc.

Verb

• To attract by temptation, appeal, or guile.
• To attract fish with a lure.
• To recall a hawk with a lure.

Origin

• From Anglo-Norman lure, from Old French loirre (Modern French leurre), from Frankish *lōþr, from Proto-Germanic *lōþr-. Compare English allure, from Old French.
• Borrowed from Icelandic lúðr