| 释义 |
wormed, ppl. a.|wɜːmd|
[f. worm v. and n. + -ed.]
1. Eaten into or bored by worms; infested with worms.
1846A. Young Naut. Dict. 371 Wormed, the state of timber or plank when a number of internal cavities are made in it by a particular kind of worm, called the Teredo navalis, that abounds chiefly in tropical climates. 1853G. Johnston Nat. Hist. E. Bord. I. 96 Old bushes may generally be seen growing, all knaggy and wormed, about decaying onsteads. 1860Encycl. Brit. (ed. 8) XXI. 976/1 There is great reason to believe that some inflammatory action of the liver, of the eye, and of other wormed viscus, precedes the evolution of parasites in them. 1883R. Bridges Prometheus 102 Then in the ruined dwellings and old tombs He dug, unbedding from the wormèd ooze Vessels and tools of trade and husbandry. 1913Masefield Daffodil Fields iii, Wormed hard-wood piles were driv'n in the river bank.
2. Formed with a screw-thread. Also in parasynthetic combinations = furnished with a (specified) number of screw-threads.
1683Moxon Printing xi. ⁋1. 62 A Three-Worm'd Spindle comes faster and lower down than a four-Worm'd Spindle. 1884Pall Mall Gaz. 8 Aug. 11/1 Two perpendicular bars of iron are firmly fixed at B B, the upper portion of each of them deeply wormed for a screw. When the silo is full, planks are laid lengthwise over its whole surface, through which the wormed ends of the iron bars protrude. |