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Definition of Fishworm
1. Noun. Terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers.
Group relationships: Class Oligochaeta, Oligochaeta
Generic synonyms: Oligochaete, Oligochaete Worm
Derivative terms: Crawl, Wiggle
Definition of Fishworm
1. a worm used as bait [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fishworm
Literary usage of Fishworm
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1906)
"Getting up a weed with the paddle close to the shore under water, where five or
six inches deep, I found a fishworm in the mud. Here and there, floating or ..."
2. Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents, Based on the Cornell by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)
"It is not by chance that the angleworm, earthworm, fishworm, is found in every
damp bank, in every handy bit of sod, the green earth over, where there are ..."
3. Lake Maxinkuckee: A Physical and Biological Survey by Barton Warren Evermann, Howard Walton Clark (1920)
"A pin- hook, a piece of string, any sort of pole, and a fishworm, are all that
is necessary. Although fairly abundant at Maxinkuckee and possessing some ..."
4. The New England Farmer by Samuel W. Cole (1856)
"Apples rapidly absorb foul odors, and how often the fine, natural flavor is gone,
and an earthy, fishworm, or musty and offensive one, substituted. 6. ..."
5. History of Shipbuilding on North River, Plymouth County, Massachusetts: With by Lloyd Vernon Briggs (1889)
"... a worm strung on a thread, called a ' fishworm bob." What fun it was to pull
them out upon the meadow grass, and bag them for breakfast ! ..."
6. Outdoor Sketching: Four Talks Given Before the Art Institute of Chicago by Francis Hopkinson Smith (1915)
"... standing together in the flies resting their weary, pink, fishworm legs as
they balanced themselves with their hands against the wabbling scenery. ..."
7. A Civic Biology: Presented in Problems by George William Hunter (1914)
"Examples are the earthworm, the sandworm (known to New York boys as the fishworm),
and the leeches or bloodsuckers. A jointed worm. The sandworm. ..."
8. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Lewellys Franklin Barker, Milton Howard Fussell, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"They are distinguishable from other tissues by their elongated shape, which they
retain even when markedly enlarged (fishworm-form, retort-form, ..."
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