cockworm
cockworm noun: a type of large marine worm, Arenicola cristata, used for fishing bait.
Noun
cockworm (plural cockworms)
- A type of large marine worm, Arenicola cristata, used for fishing bait.
- A light glass rod is best, and for bait the Bone seems to like, more than any thing, the Green or Cock worm.1954, Travel Magazine, volume 102, page 6
- After my second illness, being too old for “piggy-back rides”, I generally sat in 'Resting Nuke' on a seat naturally formed in a low branch of a cedar, watching relatives down in the bay with pitchforks furiously digging out long black slithery "cockworms" from the muddy sands of Sinky Bay.1979, Nellie Eileen Musson, Mind the Onion Seed: Black "roots" Bermuda: Presented During Bermuda's First Heritage Week, May, 1979
Forms of cockworm
| plural | cockworms |
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Origin of cockworm
From cock + worm.
Questions about cockworm
- What does cockworm mean?
- Cockworm means a type of large marine worm, Arenicola cristata, used for fishing bait.
- What part of speech is cockworm?
- Cockworm is a noun.
- What is the plural of cockworm?
- The plural of cockworm is cockworms.
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