Usage examples (7)

• "Let me set out in the open once, with a good horse under me instead of a specimen of crow-bait, and I'll open your eyes!"
• Rosinante reincarnate, a gigantic "crow-bait" with a head as long and coarse as an eighteen-hand mule's, an under lip pendulous as a camel's dropping ears nearly long...
• Mounting my crow-bait, I struck out in a westerly direction to look for the stock.
• But say, I won't be in the store more than a second, and it doesn't seem worth while to tie the old crow-bait.