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Definition of Red worm
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 Red worm
1. Noun. A worm that lives in the ground and is commonly used as fish bait. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Red Worm
Literary usage of Red worm
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Book on Angling: Being a Complete Treatise on the Art of Angling in Every by Francis Francis (1920)
"It is a more lively worm than the last, and is used for most of the fish named
above, in common with the red worm. It also comes in for fine worm-fishing in ..."
2. Manual of British Rural Sports: Comprising Shooting, Hunting, Coursing by John Henry Walsh (1867)
"THE RED-WORM is about the same size as the brandling, which it resembles in all
respects but colour, that being in the red- worm exactly what its name ..."
3. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1857)
"These be his baits: March and April, the red worm ; May, the green worm, ...
August, the red worm, and a dock worm. All the year after a red worm. ..."
4. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1858)
"The baits that most entice them, besides the red worm, is the house fly in summer
and fat of bacon in the winter. Your line would be small and well armed ..."
5. Lake Maxinkuckee: A Physical and Biological Survey by Barton Warren Evermann, Howard Walton Clark (1920)
"Animait; I red worm, some broken V. contre- ... 7 red worm». No planta hut n few
hit« of leaf. Animal*; dead «bells. I'. ..."
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