angleworm — Englisches Wörterbuch

Substantiv

1. An earthworm, used as or destined to be used as bait to catch fish.

   Gebrauch

   • US-amerikanischer Gebrauch

   Verwandte Wörter

   nightcrawlerred wiggler

   Beispiele

   A bird came down the walk : / He did not know I saw ; / He bit an angle-worm in halves / And ate the fellow, raw.

   [B]eneath their surface—now and then breaking through a reflection, revealed when the pools dried—were salamanders, newts, and tangled clumps of angleworms.

Substantiv

1. terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers

   Synonyme

   earthwormfishwormfishing wormwigglernightwalkernightcrawlercrawlerdew wormred worm

   Oberbegriffe

   oligochaeteoligochaete worm