Definitions
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- noun A small pile of
sand orsoil , theend product of thebreakdown oforganic matter by anearthworm .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun cylindrical mass of earth voided by a burrowing earthworm or lugworm
- noun fossil trail of a worm
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Examples
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An occasional hole-in-one sometimes brought his score down below that; an occasional wormcast or stray wind sometimes brought it up.
Anything You Can Do ... Randall Garrett 1957
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And the shade of meaning, the limited qualification, that a Frenchman or Englishman can attain with a mere twist of the sentence, the German must either abandon or laboriously overstate with some colossal wormcast of parenthesis ....
Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought 1906
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