angleworm

noun

Etymology: From angle + worm.

1. An earthworm, used as or destined to be used as bait to catch fish.

   “A bird came down the walk : / He did not know I saw ; / He bit an angle-worm in halves / And ate the fellow, raw.”

   “[B]eneath their surface—now and then breaking through a reflection, revealed when the pools dried—were salamanders, newts, and tangled clumps of angleworms.”