blood-worm
(ˈblʌdwɜːm)
a. A small bright-red earth-worm used by anglers. b. The scarlet larva of a genus of crane-flies (Chironomus) found in rain-water cisterns and pools.
| 1741 Compl. Fam.-Piece ii. ii. 350 They will bite freely at the small Red-worm called the Blood-worm. 1799 G. Smith Laboratory II. 280 In the winterseason, the fittest baits for the New River are bloodworms. 1833 J. Rennie Angling 37, I mean here water blood-worms, and not the smaller bright red earth-worms sometimes so named in books on angling. 1840 Browning Sordello ii. 289 Circling blood⁓worms, minnow, newt, or loach. |