wormedadj.

1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 371 Wormed, the state of timber or plank when a number of internal cavities are made in it by a particular kind of worm, called the Teredo navalis, that abounds chiefly in tropical climates.

1853 G. Johnston Terra Lindisfarnensis I. 96 Old bushes may generally be seen growing, all knaggy and wormed, about decaying onsteads.

1860 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 976/1 There is great reason to believe that some inflammatory action of the liver, of the eye, and of other wormed viscus, precedes the evolution of parasites in them.

1883 R. Bridges Prometheus 5 Then in the ruined dwellings & old tombs He dug, unbedding from the wormèd ooze Vessels and tools of trade and husbandry.

1913 J. Masefield Daffodil Fields iii Wormed hard-wood piles were driv'n in the river bank.

1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 62 A Three-Worm'd Spindle comes faster and lower down than a four-Worm'd Spindle.

1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 8 Aug. 11/1 Two perpendicular bars of iron are firmly fixed at B B, the upper portion of each of them deeply wormed for a screw. When the silo is full, planks are laid lengthwise over its whole surface, through which the wormed ends of the iron bars protrude.