Word: decoying
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...tells us that in netting passenger pigeons the trappers would blind the decoy birds or "stool pigeons" by sewing their eyes shut with a fine needle and silk thread. The decoys were then fastened by their feet to the stool, which has a circular piece of board six or eight inches in diameter, fastened to a stick four or five feet long, the opposite end of which was placed in a slot in a stake, thus forming a hinge so that the bird could be raised and lowered by pulling a string running to the fowler's hiding place...
While terrified Düsseldorf continued in acutest suspense a rumor leaked out that the supershrewd detectives were also sending out "decoy victims" - pretty young women in suits of light, flexible armour with padded steel under their hats, alert guards in the offing...
Martin O'Leary, Ernest Ross, David Miller, Fred Fisher, wanted for the murder of Policeman Ray Martin, a decoy in the Louis Blumenthal kidnaping and extortion plot...
...normal. But whatever dislocation there may be, is not, as has been assumed by the protagonists in the discussions, the kind that permanently warps the subject. One cannot help arriving at the conclusion that a good deal of powder has been wasted on what is truly a decoy duck...
...water darkened from shore-sea green to mid-sea blue. Through it trailed 30 yards of Hoover line, baited with a strip of bonito flesh. Near it on another line flipped and danced an oreno teaser, a wood and aluminum decoy.* Silent minutes made a silent hour...