sea worm

plural sea worms · alternative seaworm

1. A marine annelid.

   Being fully exposed to the sea-breezes in three directions it is healthy, and the soft sandy heath offers great facilities for hauling up the praus, in order to secure them from sea-worms and prepare them for the homeward voyage.

   1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 196

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   Below the thunders of the upper deep; Far far beneath in the abysmal sea, His antient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep, The Kraken sleepeth: […] There hath he lain for ages and will lie Battening upon huge seaworms in his sleep […]

   1830, Alfred Tennyson, “The Kraken”, in Poems, Chiefly Lyrical