Chumming

In the past, shark attacks on snorkellers have been blamed on shoddy diving practices such as "chumming" - attracting sharks by throwing solid bait or pouring chum, a mash of fish oil and blood, into the water. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The practice, known as chumming, is strictly forbidden in the resort. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They attracted considerable attention and that was what they most desired, for it was their "chumming" game to bring around the fish. ❋ Harlan Page Halsey (N/A)

This criminal "chumming" has yielded good returns, as a rule. ❋ Harlan Page Halsey (N/A)

Arriving in the center of the fishing area, Dickie Lang watched the men "chumming" the fish and suggested they throw out their lines at once. ❋ Brayton Norton (1914)

The main unit, comprising the vessels equipped with the live-bait tanks, were to begin "chumming" at once within a given area. ❋ Brayton Norton (1914)

Observers should report with especial care all cases of unusually close relationship between children in youth, such as childish favoritism, "platonic friendships," "chumming," in school or home, etc. ❋ James Mark Baldwin (1897)

Any one who knows the rudiments of cookery, will recognize that with this system no viand can have any particular flavor, the partridges having a taste of their neighbor the roast beef, which in turn suggests the plum pudding it has been "chumming" with. ❋ Eliot Gregory (1884)

There were such a lot of things to tell and to ask; the unfortunate 'new boys' to glance at with somewhat supercilious curiosity, and the usual legendary caution as to 'chumming' with them, till it should be proved what manner of persons they were; the adventures of the holidays to retail to one's special cronies; the anticipated triumphs in cricket and football and paper-chases of the forthcoming 'half' to discuss. ❋ Mrs. Molesworth (1880)

Of old, mackerel had been caught almost solely with hooks, by the "chumming" process. ❋ Elisha Benjamin Andrews (1880)

Environmentalists and surfers blame these tourist boats for "chumming": dropping bloody bait, such as meat and rotting fish, into the sea to lure sharks towards the tourists. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Eventually, the Captain's radar identified a popular spot, and the crew started "chumming". ❋ Unknown (2009)

The crew began the process of 'chumming' where a gross concoction of fish guts and blood is sent trailing behind the boat with the hope that sharks pick up the scent and follow it to the boat. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Mundus was a pioneer of the now outlawed practice of "chumming", a controversial method of baiting using blubber sucked out of whale carcasses and mixed with ground fish into a bloody concoction.

"chumming" scheme, started down for the Sheepshead Bay track. ❋ Harlan Page Halsey (N/A)

I've seen him 'chumming' for albacore all day and then bring in a bunch hours after everybody else had given up. " ❋ Brayton Norton (1914)

"Cruise up and down and keep 'chumming' so we won't lose them. ❋ Brayton Norton (1914)

It feels like the nerds on the high school student council chumming up to the popular jock and hoping he'll invite them to the next kegger or let them sit at his lunch table. ❋ Unknown (2009)

ABC's Wednesday builds to a delicious nightcap in Revenge, setting off all kinds of echoes from the glory days of the classic prime-time soap by introducing silver fox William Devane — who'll always be Knots Landing's Gregory Sumner to a certain demographic — as the Grayson patriarch, who clearly holds Conrad in contempt who doesn't? while chumming it up with Queen Victoria, whose white-trash roots mirror his own high-school drop-out upbringing. ❋ Unknown (2012)