worm-cast

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"It wasn't a worm-cast," said Puffin.

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  1. The cylindrical casting of a worm; the slender tubular mass of earth voided by the common earthworm after digestion. The worm-casts which so much annoy the gardener by deforming his smoothshaven lawns. E. P. Wright, Animal Life, p. 575.
  2. The fossil cast, mold, or track of a worm or some vermiform creature; a helminthite or helmintholite; a worm-burrow.

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  • "It wasn't a worm-cast," said Puffin. —  Miss Mapp
  • It was a worm-cast, sir, a cast of a worm, and you had no right to remove it. —  Miss Mapp
  • "Tell you it was a worm-cast," he bellowed. —  Miss Mapp
  • "Think I don't know a worm-cast when I see a worm-cast?" —  Miss Mapp
  • Undying coquetry, as Mr. Stevenson so finely remarked, awoke, for the topic preceding the worm-cast had been "the sex." —  Miss Mapp
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