angleworm

/ang-guhl-wurm/US // ˈæŋ gəlˌwɜrm //UK // (ˈæŋɡəlˌwɜːm) //

角虫,角虫病,角形虫,角马

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
Chiefly Northern, North Midland, and Western U.S.
- : an earthworm, as used for bait in angling.

The Civil War hero Ulysses Grant dismissed Republican James Garfield for lacking “the backbone of an angleworm.”
He didn't need to wait—as the birds did—until an angleworm stuck his head above ground.
Don't waste your valuable time looking for the biggest angleworm in the garden!
Tackle and Lure—The black bass will take any lure from the artificial fly to the plebeian angleworm.
We have all known him well from boyhood by several names—angleworm, fishworm, earthworm.
Then, picking up a sharp stick, she resolutely set to work to unearth an angleworm.