angleworm
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angleworm (plural angleworms)
- (Northern US) An earthworm, used as or destined to be used as bait to catch fish.
- 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:
- A bird came down the walk : / He did not know I saw ; / He bit an angle-worm in halves / And ate the fellow, raw.
- 1898, Guy Wetmore Carryl, The Precipitate Cock and the Unappreciated Pearl:
- He turned again to where his clan
In one astounding tangle
With eager haste together ran
To slay the helpless angle
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worm used as bait