brandling
English
Noun
brandling (countable and uncountable, plural brandlings)
- The young or parr of the salmon, so named from its markings being, as it were, branded.
- A small, red worm used for bait in freshwater fishing.
- 1939, George Orwell, Coming Up for Air, part 2, chapter 4
- And you also find another kind of worm called a brandling, which is striped and smells like an earwig, and which is very good bait for perch.
- 1939, George Orwell, Coming Up for Air, part 2, chapter 4
References
Brandling in the 1921 edition of Collier's Encyclopedia.
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