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Definition of Nightwalker
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 Nightwalker
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nightwalker
Literary usage of Nightwalker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Relations of Shirley's Plays to the Elizabethan Drama by Robert Stanley Forsythe (1914)
"... are responsible for the attribution to Shirley in entirety, or in part, of
fourteen plays (exclusive of The Ball, The nightwalker, and Chabot). ..."
2. The Racing Calendar by National Hunt Committee, London (1874)
"Won easily; Worthing threw his rider, nightwalker fell, and Ins was pulled up.
THURSDAY—The Grand South-Hams Steeple Chase Plato (handicap) of 50 sov. added ..."
3. The Racing Calendar by National Hunt Committee, London (1874)
"Won easily ; Worthing threw his rider, nightwalker fell, and Iris was pulled up.
THURSDAY.—The Grand South-Hams Steeple Chase Plate (handicap) of 50 sov. ..."
4. The Memoirs of Admiral Lord Charles Beresford by Charles Beresford (1914)
"Fence after fence was charged and cleared by them locked together, and it was
not until nightwalker was beaten, just before the last fence, they separated. ..."
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