[AlexBell]

I'm working on No Thoroughfare by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, published as an Extra Christmas Number of All the Year Round in the 1860s and set in the early 1800 hundreds. The books contains the sentence:

'The carriage was stopping to bait at another wayside house; and a line of long narrow carts, laden with casks of wine, and drawn by horses with a quantity of blue collar and headgear, were baiting too.'

The source text is images of the original journal published on the Dickens Journals Online site. There are some typos in earlier Christmas Numbers - ommon instead of common comes to mind - but I'm not sure whether bait and baiting are typos for wait and waiting, or whether they are archaic usage for some other words.

Any suggestions as to what I should use for bait and baiting? As always I'm at least as interested in the reasons for the suggestions as I am for the actual suggestions.