lure

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /l(j)ʊə/, /lɔː(ɹ)/, /lɜː/
• (US) IPA^(key): /lʊəɹ/, /lɔɹ/, /lɝ/
• Homophone: lore (some accents)

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• Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ), -ɜː(ɹ)

lure (plural lures)

1. (also figurative) Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure.
   • 1671, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398, page 2:

     How many have with a smile made small account
     Of Beauty and her lures

2. (fishing) An artificial bait attached to a fishing line to attract fish.
3. (falconry) A bunch of feathers attached to a line, used in falconry to recall the hawk.
   • c. 1590–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene i], page 222:

     My Faulcon now is ſharpe and paſſing emptie, / And til ſhe ſtoope ſhe muſt not be full gorg'd, / For then ſhe never lookes upon her lure.

4. A velvet smoothing brush[1].

lure (third-person singular simple present lures, present participle luring, simple past and past participle lured)

1. (intransitive) To attract by temptation, appeal, or guile.

   Synonym: entice

2. (transitive) To attract fish with a lure.
3. (transitive, falconry) To recall a hawk with a lure.

• allure

Borrowed from Icelandic lúðr.

lure (plural lures)

1. (music) Alternative form of lur

• ReLU, Ruel, Rule, rule

lure

1. definite singular of lur
2. plural of lur

From Middle Low German luren.

lure (imperative lur, present tense lurer, passive lures, simple past lurte, past participle lurt, present participle lurende)

1. to deceive, trick
2. to lurk
3. to wonder (på / about)

• “lure” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

lure

1. definite of lur
2. plural of lur

lure (present tense lurar or lurer, past tense lura or lurte, past participle lura or lurt, present participle lurande, imperative lur)

1. Alternative form of lura

From Frankish.

lure f (oblique plural lures, nominative singular lure, nominative plural lures)

1. lure (bunch of feathers attached to a line, used in falconry to recall the hawk)

• English: lure

• lure on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub