lobworm

American  

[lob-wurm] / ˈlɒbˌwɜrm /

noun

1. the lugworm.

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lobworm British  

/ ˈlɒbˌwɜːm /

noun

1. Sometimes shortened to: lob.  another name for lugworm

2. a large earthworm used as bait in fishing

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Etymology

Origin of lobworm

1645–55; dial. lob, earlier lobbe originally, something pendulous ( lob ¹ ) + worm

Example Sentences

Finding a large lobworm, I picked it up and gave it to one of them.

From A Cotswold Village by Gibbs, J. Arthur

For large fish at Cantley, Reedham, Somerleyton, and other deep swift waters, ledger fishing, with the tail end of a lobworm on the hook, is a capital bait. 

From The Handbook to the Rivers and Broads of Norfolk & Suffolk by Davies, G. Christopher

The bee with his comb, The mouse at her dray, The grub in his tomb, While winter away; But the firefly and hedge-shrew and lobworm, I pray,5 How fare they?

From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Reynolds, Myra

But winter hastens at summer's end, And firefly, hedge-shrew, lobworm, pray, How fare they?

From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Reynolds, Myra

The earth-worm, the lobworm, the nereis, and the leech belong to this division.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various