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angleworm

Earthworm \Earth"worm`\, n.

  1. (Zo["o]l.) Any worm of the genus Lumbricus and allied genera, found in damp soil. One of the largest and most abundant species in Europe and America is L. terrestris; many others are known; -- called also angleworm and dewworm.

  2. A mean, sordid person; a niggard.
    --Norris.

Wiktionary
angleworm

alt. (context Northern US English) An earthworm, used as or destined to be used as bait to catch fish. n. (context Northern US English) An earthworm, used as or destined to be used as bait to catch fish.

WordNet
angleworm

n. terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers [syn: earthworm, fishworm, fishing worm, wiggler, nightwalker, nightcrawler, crawler, dew worm, red worm]

Usage examples of "angleworm".

He found a few winged things that might be called worms, but none that even remotely resembled the angleworm with the halo.

Rebecca Mary hunted bugs and angleworms and arranged them temptingly in rows, but the big, white rooster passed them by with a feeble peck or two.

His mother made him a luncheon to take with him, he dug some angleworms in the garden for bait, and the hired man consented to let him take a long pole that he used himself when he fished in the river.

There were beetles and insects with legs like grass stems, and grubs in old rotten logs, white grubs with brown pinching heads that would not stay on the hook and emptied into nothing in the cold water, and wood ticks under logs where sometimes I found angleworms that slipped into the ground as soon as the log was raised.

All angleworms in a bottle, trying to derive knowledge and nourishment from their own contact and from the bottle.

All angleworms in a bottle, trying to derive knowledge and nourishment from their own contact and from the bottle.

It would be futile to attempt to describe them to Earth men, since substance is the only thing which they possess in common with any creature of the past or present with which you are familiar -- even their venom is of an unearthly virulence that, by comparison, would make the cobra de capello seem quite as harmless as an angleworm.

Some of them spittoons was quite heavy, and when one missed me and went bong on Snake River's head, he curled up like a angleworm which has been tromped on.