pileworm
noun
A marine invertebrate which bores into submerged wooden piles, etc.; especially the shipworm, Teredo navalis.
Origin
Mid 18th century; earliest use found in untitled.
- makeable
- make a bolt for
- make a break for
- make a clean breast of it
- make a clean job of something
- make a clean sweep
- make a conquest of
- make a day (or night) of it
- make a dead set at
- make-a-do
- make a drama out of
- make a fight of it
- make a fool of
- make after
- make a fuss
- make a fuss over (or of)
- make a galah of oneself
- make (a) game of
- make a go of
- make a hames of
- make a hash of
- make-ahead
- make a hit
- make a hole in
- make a Horlicks of