[f. LOB sb.2] a. A large earthworm used for bait by anglers. b. The LUG-WORM (Arenicola marina).
a. 1651. T. Barker, Art of Angling (1653), 7. I waited my hook with two Lob-worms.
1653. Walton, Angler, iv. 94. For the Trout the Dew-worm (which some also call the Lob-worm) and the Brandling are the chief.
1718. G. Jacob, Compl. Sportsman, 119. The Lob or Garden-Worm well scoured is the only Bait.
1867. F. Francis, Angling, i. (1880), 31. The large roach will … take the tail of a lob-worm very ravenously.
b. 1854. Eng. Cycl., Nat. Hist., I. 295. Arenicola piscatorum, the Lob or Lug Worm.
1875. Encycl. Brit. (ed. 9), II. 71/1. All round the British and many other coasts the lob-worm (Arenicola marina) is used for bait.
