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- verb Present participle of
decoy .
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Examples
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Boone was blessed with keen intelligence, great eyesight and reflexes, and the instincts of a born hunter, but as a boy he picked up most of his basic knowledge about tracking, stalking, and decoying from the Delaware and Shawnee Indians who gathered at his grandfather's mill.
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Wasn't there a law about this sort of thing -- something about "decoying" and "young girls"?
The Fawn Gloves 1893
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But I want you to know that the notion of decoying them away with an inflammable plastic replica was not my idea; it was Matt Fisher's. "
Hail to the Chief Randall Garrett 1957
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“They employed the art of deceiving, misleading, decoying, and surprising the enemy with great cleverness,” he wrote in praising them.
Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011
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What's the best breed of dog for decoying (luring) coyotes?
What's the best breed of dog for decoying (luring) coyotes? And what is the best way to train them? 2009
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Unfortunately if you waterfowl hunt, and take shots at a distance other than decoying birds at short ranges, you'd have to have a 12 ga. that has a shell case large enough to contain an adequate amount of steel shot.
What one shotgun would you want to have for the rest of your life 2010
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Unfortunately if you waterfowl hunt, and take shots at a distance other than decoying birds at short ranges, you'd have to have a 12 ga. that has a shell case large enough to contain an adequate amount of steel shot.
What one shotgun would you want to have for the rest of your life 2010
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“They employed the art of deceiving, misleading, decoying, and surprising the enemy with great cleverness,” he wrote in praising them.
Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011
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In Manitoba, this feature came in handy for me when I was kneeling behind some rolled hay as flocks of Canada geese were coming into our decoys; and then, later, when I had to kneel down in a wet duck boot while decoying in some redhead ducks.
2009 Holiday Gift Guide: Ten Great Gifts for Hunters and Fishermen 2009
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What's the best breed of dog for decoying (luring) coyotes?
What's the best breed of dog for decoying (luring) coyotes? And what is the best way to train them? 2009
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