Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The lugworm. Also
lob .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The lugworm.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
lugworm .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun marine worms having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back; often used for fishing bait
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It was discovered on the blank space of a bit of newspaper, and looked much as if a fat lobworm had plunged himself into a bowl of ink, and in his literary delirium had twisted uneasily to the verge of the paper.
Rhoda Fleming — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868
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It was discovered on the blank space of a bit of newspaper, and looked much as if a fat lobworm had plunged himself into a bowl of ink, and in his literary delirium had twisted uneasily to the verge of the paper.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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It was discovered on the blank space of a bit of newspaper, and looked much as if a fat lobworm had plunged himself into
Rhoda Fleming — Complete George Meredith 1868
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But the firefly and hedge-shrew and lobworm, I pray, 5
Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning Robert Browning 1850
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microwave nightfall · lobworm dangled haplodiplomat · hulb ongoing disgruntlement pumps quarry · tawny wind across factor slurry in the wake of the rubble to grapple · stodgy climb blunt lanai · hurricane lees and these contested leets
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