angleworm en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈæŋ.ɡəlˌwɜɹm/
- (Australia) audio
Etymology
From angle + worm.
Meanings
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(US) An earthworm, used as or destined to be used as bait to catch fish.
A bird came down the walk : / He did not know I saw ; / He bit an angle-worm in halves / And ate the fellow, raw.
a. 1887 (date written), Emily Dickinson, “In the Garden”, in Mabel Loomis Todd and T[homas] W[entworth] Higginson, editors, Poems, Second Series, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, published 1891, page 140:[B]eneath their surface—now and then breaking through a reflection, revealed when the pools dried—were salamanders, newts, and tangled clumps of angleworms.
1975, Larry Woiwode, Beyond the Bedroom Wall, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, page 192:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| angleworms | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| angle worm | alternative | lexicographic | |
| angle-worm | alternative | lexicographic |
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Translations (4)
fi onkiliero (worm used as bait) · fi onkimato (worm used as bait) · tr olta solucanı (worm used as bait) · ru червя́к для нажи́вки (worm used as bait)