Decoy

·noun A place into which wild fowl, ·esp. ducks, are enticed in order to take or shoot them.

II. Decoy ·noun A fowl, or the likeness of one, used by sportsmen to entice other fowl into a net or within shot.

III. Decoy ·noun Anything intended to lead into a snare; a lure that deceives and misleads into danger, or into the power of an enemy; a bait.

IV. Decoy ·noun 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.

V. Decoy ·vt To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to Entrap; to Insnare; to Allure; to Entice; as, to decoy troops into an ambush; to decoy ducks into a net.