¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Decoys
1. decoy [v] - See also: decoy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decoys
Literary usage of Decoys
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Boys Handy Book by Daniel Carter Beard (1890)
"312, 313, 314, explain the construction of these decoys so well that it is ...
Place your decoys for snipe in the muddy or marshy spot that the birds are ..."
2. A History of the Game Birds, Wild-fowl and Shore Birds of Massachusetts and by Edward Howe Forbush, Willey Ingraham Beecroft, Herbert Keightley Job, Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture (1912)
"The Use of Live decoys. The use of live decoys for attracting wild-fowl is a
practice which, in America, seems to have originated in Massachusetts. ..."
3. A Brief for the Trial of Criminal Cases by Austin Abbott, William Constantine Beecher (1902)
"[The propriety of the use of decoys and the question whether acting on the ...
Informers and spies; and decoys. The mere fact that a witness acted aa an ..."
4. Commentaries on the Roman-Dutch Law by Simon van Leeuwen (1820)
"... grass and corn lands; and it was ordered, that no person may henceforth make
any new decoys within the dikes, on pain of forty gilders, ..."
5. Guns and Gunning by Bellmore H. Browne (1908)
"NUMBER OF decoys Men differ radically concerning the correct number of decoys to
use, but if the hunter follows the hints of the wild birds themselves, ..."
Other Resources:
