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Meanings of lobworm in English

Marine worms having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back; often used for fishing bait.

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        Examples for "lug"
        Examples for "lug"
        1
        Supreme confidence leads to addition of SexxBeard and electronic lug accoutrement 3.
        The Guardian
        2
        Traditional liquid fuelled rockets need to lug enormous fuel tanks with them.
        News.com.au
        3
        Yeah, it's a pain to lug 'em all the way from Japan.
        Blind willow, sleeping woman
        4
        About an hour after noon, the snowmobile began to hitch and lug.
        The stand
        5
        I lug from room to office to playground reams of ungraded essays.
        Lit: a memoir
        1
        Synthetic clothing, skin exfoliants and toothpaste may not sound too toxic, but to a lugworm or filter-feeding mussel they are lethal poison.
        The Irish Times
        2
        Wind and tide shift the resultant silt across the surface of the bay, where shellfish, shrimps and lugworm feed hosts of wading birds.
        The Guardian
        3
        The worst part of this performance was digging the bait of lugworms on the little beach of Creviçhon.
        Jethou; or, Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles
        4
        The worm in the photo is one of 17,590 annelid species: others include earthworms, lugworms and leeches.
        BBC
        Usage of lobworm in English
        1
        Finding a large lobworm, I picked it up and gave it to one of them.
        A Cotswold Village; Or, Country Life and Pursuits in Gloucesters...
        2
        A large lobworm, however, as every one knows, is a very attractive bait for any kind of fresh-water fish except pike.
        A Cotswold Village; Or, Country Life and Pursuits in Gloucesters...
        3
        They found a few lobworms and re-baited their hooks and cast their lines afresh, but met with no better success than before.
        Monitress Merle
        Frequent collocations
        Lobworm through the time