lokaas, noun

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AfrikaansShow more Afrikaans, lok attract, entice + aas bait.
Chopped or crushed bait.
1955 C. Horne Fisherman’s Eldorado 20Two methods, which will effectively attract and hold shoals..are widely employed in the Cape Peninsula. The first..is to scatter what Cape anglers call ‘lokaas’..usually obtained by crushing a crawfish body to pulp.
1955 C. Horne Fisherman’s Eldorado 185Anglers regard one preliminary operation as absolutely essential. They will never cast their bait unless they have used ‘lok-aas’, the term used at the Cape to denote chum.
1980 E. Prov. Herald 31 Jan. 15Some people caught many mullet by an ingenious method. They rolled congealed blood in the sand and threw this into the surf as lokaas.
Chopped or crushed bait.
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