apple-baited

Updated: May 9, 2025

The descendant of many generations of broom-squires and deer-stealers, the instinct of sport is strong within him still, though no more of the king's deer are to be shot in the winter turnip-fields, or worse, caught by an apple-baited hook hung from an orchard bough.

Charles Kingsley - Prose Idylls, New and Old