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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
lugworm
noun
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▪ Dungeness beach yielded dabs to black lugworm.
▪ It's the water's coat-of-Joseph and its Nessus-shirt only the hardy survive: odd pink bivalves mottled crabs, incorrigible lugworms.
▪ It is fair to warn anglers that thousands of crabs soon make short work of rag and lugworm.
▪ Rag, lugworm, whites, peeler crabs, whelks, shrimps, cockles and even odd razor-fish can be collected.
▪ Ragworm was again the successful bait fished over the extensive lugworm beds at Evening Hill.
▪ The lugworms may be lagging a long way behind, but perhaps their time may come?
▪ The lugworms, in any case, Willis had told them, were better on Limehouse Reach.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lugworm

Lugworm \Lug"worm`\, n. [1st lug + worm.] (Zo["o]l.) A large marine annelid ( Arenicola marina) having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back. It is found burrowing in sandy beaches, both in America and Europe, and is used for bait by European fishermen. Called also lobworm, and baitworm.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
lugworm

c.1600, from lug, probably a Celtic word (the first recorded use is in a Cornwall context) unrelated to lug (n.) or lug (v.) + worm. But OED suggests connection with lug (v.) on the notion of "heavy, clumsy."

Wiktionary
lugworm

n. A large marine annelid worm of the species (taxlink Arenicola marina species noshow=1), whose coiled castings can often be seen on beaches at low tide.

WordNet
lugworm

n. marine worms having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back; often used for fishing bait [syn: lug, lobworm]

Wikipedia
Lugworm

The lugworm or sandworm (Arenicola marina) is a large marine worm of the phylum Annelida. Its coiled castings are a familiar sight on a beach at low tide but the animal itself is rarely seen except by those who, from curiosity or to use as fishing bait, dig the worm out of the sand.

When fully grown, the lugworm of the coasts of Europe is up to long and in diameter. Other species on the North American coast range from . The body is like that of an earthworm: ringed or segmented. Its head end, which is blackish-red and bears no tentacles or bristles, passes into a fatter middle part which is red. This in turn passes into a thinner yellowish-red tail end. The middle part has bristles along its sides and also pairs of feathery gills. There is a well-developed system of blood vessels with red blood rich in the oxygen-carrying pigment, haemoglobin.