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angleworms

angleworms is the plural of angleworm.

Meaning of angleworm

Noun

angleworm (plural angleworms)

  1. (US) An earthworm, used as or destined to be used as bait to catch fish.
    • A bird came down the walk : / He did not know I saw ; / He bit an angle-worm in halves / And ate the fellow, raw.a. 1887 (date written), Emily Dickinson, “In the Garden”, in Mabel Loomis Todd and T[homas] W[entworth] Higginson, editors, Poems, Second Series, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, published 1891, page...

Questions about angleworms

What is angleworms the plural of?
Angleworms is the plural of angleworm.

Words near angleworms in the dictionary

  1. Angleur
  2. anglewing
  3. anglewings
  4. anglewise
  5. angleworm
  6. angleworms
  7. Anglezarke
  8. Anglia
  9. Anglian
  10. Anglians
  11. Anglic

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