Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See lugworm.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The lugworm. Also lob.
Wiktionary
- n. The lugworm.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) The lugworm.
WordNet 3.0
- n. marine worms having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back; often used for fishing bait
Etymologies
- Alteration (influenced by lob, lump, something hanging) of lugworm. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“It was discovered on the blank space of a bit of newspaper, and looked much as if a fat lobworm had plunged himself into a bowl of ink, and in his literary delirium had twisted uneasily to the verge of the paper.”
“It was discovered on the blank space of a bit of newspaper, and looked much as if a fat lobworm had plunged himself into”
“But the firefly and hedge-shrew and lobworm, I pray, 5”
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Ponderable Zoological Names
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The Worm List
List of all things wormy.
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