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- noun An
earthworm .
Etymologies
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rain + worm; they are driven out of the saturated soil after heavy rain.
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Examples
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I saw in the hearts of those who were about me faery gardens and infernos, deserts and turnip fields; I saw a comically hopping rainworm who was nibbling at a graceful centipede; I saw a world in which darkness was lord.
The Indian Lily and Other Stories Hermann Sudermann 1892
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