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Worm-eaten   /wərm-ˈitən/   Listen
adjective
Worm-eaten  adj.  
1.
Eaten, or eaten into, by a worm or by worms; as, worm-eaten timber. "Concave as a covered goblet, or a worm-eaten nut."
2.
Worn-out; old; worthless. (R.)





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"Worm-eaten" Quotes from Famous Books



... fortune of training, been allowed to see the beauty of the old things must recognize that what the generation gains is more for its happiness than what it discards, as a new brass Birmingham bedstead is cleaner, healthier, and more desirable for a small crowded cottage than a worm-eaten old ...
— Lynton and Lynmouth - A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland • John Presland
... hardest day of all to Fulk, for this was the only one on which he could not be busy enough to tire himself out. We were a mile from church, and when we got to the worm-eaten farm pew there was a smell, as Jaquey said, as if generations of farmers had been eating cheese there, and generations of mice eating after them; and she always longed to shut up ...
— Lady Hester, or Ursula's Narrative • Charlotte M. Yonge
... credit that you should have such feelings, I'm sure. But don't you think sentiment may be carried too far? Why, we should have no new furniture at all, and should have to put up with worm-eaten horrors. Besides, my dear, Hollingford will seem very dull to Cynthia, after pretty, gay France, and I want to make the first impressions attractive. I've a notion I can settle her down near here; ...
— Wives and Daughters • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
... be thrown or may fall overboard during so long a passage, and thus find their way to land. But these are not mere conjectures and possibilities; for one of my people actually did see some wood in one of the houses at Wymoa, which he judged to be fir. It was worm-eaten, and the natives gave him to understand, that it had been driven ashore by the waves of the sea; and we had their own express testimony, that they had got the inconsiderable specimens of iron, found amongst them, from some ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 • Robert Kerr
... itself is clearly of inferior quality; industry, order, economy and labor have done everything. How great the contrast between all this and the aspect of a small town on the shores of the Mediterranean, so neglected and filthy, where the lower middle class exist like worms in a worm-eaten beam! ...
— Seeing Europe with Famous Authors - Vol. II Great Britain And Ireland, Part Two • Francis W. Halsey


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