ANGLEWITCH

"Anglewitch" is an obsolete term. It survives merely as an oddity. My trusty Webster does not list it, but let me assure you that an anglewitch is a fishing worm.

I was not able to track down the meaning of the second half of the word, but as to the first half, a fisherman is often referred to as an angler. Perhaps "witch" is simply an alternate to the word "worm." I do not know. My dictionaries and the Internet have let me down.

What I do know is that Webster's does list a similar word: "angleworm." The definition, of course, is fishing worm.

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