lobworm
Americannoun
noun
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Sometimes shortened to: lob. another name for lugworm
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a large earthworm used as bait in fishing
Etymology
Origin of lobworm
1645–55; dial. lob, earlier lobbe originally, something pendulous ( see lob 1) + worm
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For large fish at Cantley, Reedham, Somerleyton, and other deep swift waters, ledger fishing, with the tail end of a lobworm on the hook, is a capital bait.
From The Handbook to the Rivers and Broads of Norfolk & Suffolk by G. Christopher Davies
But winter hastens at summer's end, And firefly, hedge-shrew, lobworm, pray, How fare they?
From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Myra Reynolds
Finding a large lobworm, I picked it up and gave it to one of them.
From A Cotswold Village by J. Arthur Gibbs
The earth-worm, the lobworm, the nereis, and the leech belong to this division.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various
I am not certain, however, whether the badger trembled out of gratitude for the lobworm or out of rage and disgust at being confined in a cage.
From A Cotswold Village by J. Arthur Gibbs
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