brandlin

Noun

branlin (plural branlins)

1. A small red worm or larva, used as bait for fish.
2. (UK, obsolete, regional) A young salmon (parr), in the stage in which it has transverse black bands, as if burned by a gridiron.

Noun

brandling (countable and uncountable, plural brandlings)

1. The young or parr of the salmon, so named from its markings being, as it were, branded.
2. A small, red earthworm, Eisenia fetida, used for bait in freshwater fishing.
   • And you also find another kind of worm called a brandling, which is striped and smells like an earwig, and which is very good bait for perch.1939, George Orwell, Coming Up for Air, part 2, chapter 4

   Synonyms:

   compost worm, manure worm, panfish worm, red wiggler, redworm, tiger worm, trout worm

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