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Meanings of lugworm 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
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
Usage of lugworm in English
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
Lugworm through the time