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Definition of Decoys

Decoy
Decoy De*coy", n. 1. Anything intended to lead into a snare; a lure that deceives and misleads into danger, or into the power of an enemy; a bait. 2. A fowl, or the likeness of one, used by sportsmen to entice other fowl into a net or within shot. 3. A place into which wild fowl, esp. ducks, are enticed in order to take or shoot them. 4. A person employed by officers of justice, or parties exposed to injury, to induce a suspected person to commit an offense under circumstances that will lead to his detection.

Meaning of Decoys from wikipedia

- Wildfowl decoys (primarily ducks, geese, s****birds, and crows, but including some other species) are considered a form of folk art. Collecting decoys has...
- Look up decoy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A decoy is a person, device, or event meant to distract. Decoy or Decoys may also refer to: Decoy (1934...
- Honfi–Barczay, Kecskemet 1977, with Black to play, illustrates two separate decoys. First, the white queen is set up on c4 for a knight fork: 1... Rxc4! 2...
- The Decoy is the name of a number of films: The Decoy (1914 film) The Decoy (1915 film) The Decoy (1916 film) The Decoy (1918 film) The Decoy (2006 film)...
- or have had decoys, including Manuel Noriega, Raoul Cédras, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Osama bin Laden. Of Noriega's four alleged decoys, Reeder said...
- Fishing decoys have a long history in North America, having been used by Indigenous peoples since at least 1000 AD. The first fishing decoys were made...
- been named HMS Decoy. HMS Decoy (1810), the name vessel for her three-vessel class of cutter; the French captured her in 1814 HMS Decoy (1856), a Cheerful-class...
- The Decoy Bride is a 2011 British romantic comedy film written by comedian Sally Phillips and Neil Jaworski, and starring Kelly Macdonald, David Tennant...
- Decoy Ohtani, known in ****anese as Dekopin, is a Kooikerhondje owned by ****anese baseball player Shohei Ohtani. He is a fixture in the Los Angeles Dodgers...
- known use of duck decoys was by ancient Egyptians, who used decoys made of clay on the Nile to hunt ducks and geese around 2500 BCE. Decoy ducks have been...