English

Alternative forms

• ground-worm

Noun

groundworm ‎(plural groundworms)

1. (dialectal, dated) earthworm
   • 1828, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson: with annotations, Volume 1, Houghton Mifflin (1909), Journal XIX, p. 239

     They are scheming and talking, as if they belonged, like a toad or a ground-worm, to the acre on which they were born: