angleworm

Noun

1. 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]...
   • [B]eneath their surface—now and then breaking through a reflection, revealed when the pools dried—were salamanders, newts, and tangled clumps of angleworms. - 1975, Larry Woiwode, Beyond the Bedroom Wall, Farrar, Straus...