释义 |
red worm, red-worm 1. A variety of earth-worm much used as bait in rod-fishing.
a1450Fysshynge w. Angle (1883) 30 He hath but one manere of bayte & that is a red worme, which is moost cheyf for all manere of fysshe. 1613Dennys Secrets Angling ii. D i b, The Pearch, the Tench, and Eele, doe rather bite At great red wormes, in Field or Garden bred. 1740R. Brookes Art of Angling 12 The Brandling, Gilt-Tail and Red-Worm, are all to be found in old Dunghills. 1856Stonehenge Brit. Sports 236/2 The Red-Worm is about the same size as the brandling. 2. A worm or grub attacking grain.
1764Museum Rust. III. 171 My wheat..was cut off, last May, by a little insect called the red-worm. 1780Young Tour in Irel. i. 6 Soot he buys at Dublin for sowing over the wheat in April to kill the red worm. 1792Trans. Soc. Arts X. 59 Materially injured by the wire or red worm. 3. A parasitic nematode worm belonging to the family Strongylidæ, esp. to the genus Strongylus, which infests the intestine and other organs of many vertebrate animals, causing severe anæmia and general debility.
1891R. Wallace Rural Econ. Austral. & N.Z. xxviii. 374 Sheep also suffer from the red worm..in their fourth stomach. 1951Chambers's Jrnl. Oct. 587/1 Red-worms belong to the Strongyle family. 1970Miller & West Black's Vet. Dict. (ed. 9) 768/1 Thiabendazole is a useful drug for the removal of red worms in horses. |