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Measuring worm
Answer for the clue "Measuring worm ", 6 letters:
looper
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Looper may refer to: Looper, a (usually electronic) tool for creating music loops Tape loop , loops of magnetic tape used to create repetitive, rhythmic musical patterns or dense layers of sound when played on a tape recorder Looper (band) , a Scottish ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An instrument or tool, as a bodkin, for forming a loop in yarn or cord, etc. 2 An inchworm or measuring worm.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inchworm \Inch"worm`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) The larva of any geometrid moth. It progresses forward by first bringing the rear end of the body forward, forming a loop, then moving the front part of the body; called also measuring worm, measuringworm , spanner , ...
Usage examples of looper.
Keeping his back to Slidell, Looper ran his right palm across each cheek, and breathed deeply.
I thought about his insensitive digs at Lawrence Looper and Wally Cagle.
Harold dove for a looper she put just over the net, ending up on the ground and not for the first time.
He drew the charge and reloaded the weapon with a handful of Big Looper, the formidable lion shot.
Zij had voor geen van allen een goed woord over, en zij liep, quasi druk bezig, door het huis te dwalen, telkens de bedienden op de vingers tikkend voor kleine onoplettendheden, voor een stofdoek die slingerde, of een looper die niet recht lag.
Give me two guns, fill the saddle-bags with powder tins and loopers, and tie them to my mare.
I found it to be a weapon of the most extraordinary accuracy up to a range of about two hundred yards, though when I rode off in that desperate hurry for Maraisfontein I did not take it with me because it was a single barrel and too small in the bore to load with loopers at a pinch.
I say that you have been using loopers, or else bullets that were sawn in quarters and glued or tied with thread.
Lying beside Flynn was his shotgun, dOUble-loaded with big loopers, lion shot, and he had every intention of using it.
Tom fired the first barrel into its chest, and the heavy leaden loopers thudded into flesh and bone.
At that distance, of course, the loopers sank through the soft hide of the shields and deep into the bodies of those who carried them, so that both of them dropped dead, the left-hand man being so close that he fell against my pony, his uplifted kerry striking me upon the thigh and bruising me.
Arin said some people got worried about what would happen if Loopers and ship owners got interested in Befores as more than a sometime high-profit oddity.
Give me two guns, fill the saddle-bags with powder tins and loopers, and tie them to my mare.
The caterpillar of the moth is a crop pest, a green inchworm known as the alfalfa looper.