† devil's gold ring Obs.
Popular name of a destructive caterpillar.
| 1552 Huloet, Canker worme which creapeth..on colewortes. Some do call them the deuyls goldrynge, & some the colewort worme. 1601 Holland Pliny I. 547 margin. 1611 Cotgr., Vrbec, the Vine-Fretter, or Devill's Gold-ring; a worm. 1693 Evelyn De la Quint. Compl. Gard. Gloss., Devils Gold Ring, in French, Lisette, a sort of a Worm or Cater-pillar infesting the young shoots of Vines. 1783 Ainsworth Lat. Dict. (Morell) i. s.v. Devil, The devil's gold ring (a caterpillar). |