slick-wormn.
Scottish.
(See quot. 1796 and cf. sleck n.)
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slick-worm1796
shad-worm1851
1796 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XVII. 469 This brook has a rich muddy bottom, in which there is plenty of slick-worm (a species of food which the trout peculiarly delight in).
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