redwormn.
/ˈrɛdwəːm/, U.S. /ˈrɛdˌwərm/ 1. A small, brownish-red earthworm, Lumbricus rubellus, used as bait in angling, and in the composting of organic matter. Also: (in later use) the brandling, Eisenia fetida.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > bait > worms and grubs
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Jack1601
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caddis-worm1627
caddis1653
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lob-worm1653
marsh worm1653
gilt tail1656
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ash-grub1676
clap-bait1681
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earth-bob1696
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cow-turd-bob1798
palmer bob1814
slob1814
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sedge-worm1839
snake feeder1861
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Annelida > [noun] > class Chaetopoda > order Oligochaeta > family Lumbricidae > member of (earthworm) > used as bait
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c1450 Treat. Fishing in J. McDonald et al. Origins of Angling (1963) 173 (MED) Angle to hym [sc. a trout] with a grownde lyne with a red worme for þe mor sur.
1577 Arte of Angling sig. Diiiiv He will bite very well at..the great redworme.
a1609 J. Dennys Secrets of Angling (1613) ii. ii. sig. Div The Pearch, the Tench, and Eele, doe rather bite At great red wormes, in Field or Garden bred.
1675 Accomplish'd Lady's Delight 219 A Carp will take a red Worm dipt in Tarr, at the bottom.
1740 R. Brookes Art of Angling 12 The Brandling, Gilt-Tail and Red-Worm, are all to be found in old Dunghills.
1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports 236/2 The Red-Worm is about the same size as the brandling.
1881 P. Henderson Henderson's Handbk. Plants 372/2 The Angle worm or the common red worm seen in nearly every soil..is harmless as far as feeding on the plant goes.
1894 Times 11 Dec. 15/1 The tidal water fishermen have lately been raking for dace with considerable success, using red worm for bait.
1961 J. L. Cloudsley-Thompson & J. Sankey Land Invertebr. iii. 42 Lumbricus rubellus (Hoff.)... This very common species, sometimes known as the Marsh Worm, or Red Worm, occurs especially in damp places rich in humus.
1990 Garbage Nov. 40/2 A worm box differs from traditional composting in that the critter that does the job of breaking down the organic material is..a redworm, one that's closely related to the earthworm.
2. Any of various small reddish insect larvae, esp. one which attacks cereal plants. Now rare.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > division Vermes > [noun] > member of (worm) > parasitic or harmful > to plants
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > eggs or young > [noun] > young or development of young > larva > defined by parasitism or feeding > attacking grain
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1705 R. Beverley Hist. Virginia iv. xix. 66 Seed-Ticks, and Red-Worms are small Insects, that annoy People by Day, as Musketaes, and Chinches do by Night.
1764 Museum Rusticum (1765) 3 171 My wheat..was cut off, last May, by a little insect called the red-worm.
1780 A. Young Tour Ireland i. 6 Soot he buys at Dublin for sowing over the wheat in April to kill the red worm.
1792 Trans. Soc. Arts 10 59 Materially injured by the wire or red worm.
1849 Times 7 Aug. 4/6 With the exception..of a few complaints of the appearance of red-worm in wheat, there are, as yet, no grounds for apprehension so far as the cereal crops are concerned.
1913 D. Grant tr. E. Bourcart Insecticides, Fungicides & Weedkillers 380 In the opinion of Perraud.., Peglion, and Del Quercio, it is one of the best means of killing the red-worm of the vine.
3. A parasitic nematode worm of the family Strongylidae, esp. of the genus Strongylus, which infests the intestine, windpipe, or other organs of many vertebrate animals, causing severe anaemia and general debility.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Nemathelminthes > [noun] > class Nematoda > family Strongylidae > member of
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1810 R. Parkinson Treat. Breeding & Managem. Live Stock II. iii. 136 I have lost horses pastured in those fens, which have had more than a peck of sand in their maw, or first stomach, and an immense number of bots and red worms in their intestines.
1891 R. Wallace Rural Econ. Austral. & N.Z. xxviii. 374 Sheep also suffer from the red worm..in their fourth stomach.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. vii. 135 One of the strangest of the round worms or Nematodes is the forked worm or red worm, Syngamus trachealis,..which causes ‘gapes’ in turkey and various game-birds.
1951 Chambers's Jrnl. Oct. 587/1 Red-worms belong to the Strongyle family.
1970 Miller & West Black's Vet. Dict. (ed. 9) 768/1 Thiabendazole is a useful drug for the removal of red worms in horses.
1986 Horse & Rider Sept. 2 (advt.) Common horse worms, including..redworms, lungworms and bots.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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