noun

• One who teases or pokes fun.
• (textile treatment) A person or thing that teases.
• (marketing) A preview or part of a product released in preparation of its main advertising, typically a short film, song, or quote.
• (television) A brief portion of a television episode shown at the beginning, often before the main title sequence, meant to introduce the story and entice viewers to watch the rest of the episode.
• (UK, dialect) A kind of gull, the jaeger
• (electrical) A shunt winding on field magnets for maintaining their magnetism when the main circuit is open.
• The stoker of a glassworks furnace.
• (theater) A short horizontal curtain used to mask the flies and frame the top of the inner stage opening, adjustable to the desired height.
• (UK) An assistant who accompanies the 'Obby 'Oss in the May Day festivities of Padstow, Cornwall.
• (fishing) A lure, especially one without a hook, used to attract fish to another lure or lures.
• (fishing) A lure used in addition to a bucktail used for fluke fishing.