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Definition of Ragworms
1. ragworm [n] - See also: ragworm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ragworms
Literary usage of Ragworms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sea Fishing by John Bickerdyke, William Senior, Alfred Harmsworth Northcliffe (1895)
"ragworms perhaps keeping best in sand or seaweed. ... There are two ways of using
ragworms. Two or three may be hooked through the head and used as a ..."
2. Sea Fishing by John Bickerdyke, William Senior, Alfred Harmsworth Northcliffe (1895)
"The worms should be kept at all times in as cool a place as possible and out of
the sun, the large ragworms perhaps keeping best in sand or seaweed. ..."
3. Sport in Europe by Frederick George Aflalo (1901)
"A single hook, baited with a living sand eel, two ragworms, or a strip of mackerel
or pilchard, is attached to the end of a gut trace, single or double ..."
4. Sea-fishing on the English Coast: A Manual of Practical Instruction on the by Frederick George Aflalo (1891)
"He also keeps a pretty constant supply of live ragworms—the only bait of any use
for the Mullet. It comes cheaper, however, to buy these in the harbour, ..."
5. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1889)
"... inveigle an urchin into the task of obtaining for him a pot of ragworms for bait.
Soon after she saw her nephew go out, but he did not raise his head. ..."
6. The Norfolk Broads by William Alfred Dutt (1906)
"The flats, however, are still alive in places with ragworms and Nereides, and
for these the long- billed waders search and probe. Mollusca are commonly met ..."
7. Fishing by Horace Gordon Hutchinson (1904)
"... and some really good bass and pollack are taken up to midnight, ragworms being
a favourite bait. The steamer traffic is so immense at this pier that it ..."
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