noun

• A cook, typically one catering for shearers or other agricultural workers.

  More example sentences

  • ‘the bait layer's eyes were like onions in a field of grey stubble’
  • ‘Put him up aboard there and take him back to the bait layer.’
  • ‘For a joke, they will refer to their cook as "the bait-layer."’
  • ‘He was the Jewish Aboriginal bait-layer from backblocks Queensland.’
  • ‘Cooking for a number of people is a complicated business and anything to make the bait-layer's job easier should be done.’
  • ‘Hooroo, you Bait Layer! I'd need binoculars to even notice yer tiny lunch rations.’