noun
(also angletouch)
rare, dialect British, Welsh A worm used as bait in fishing; an earthworm.
Origin
Old English; earliest use found in Bald's Leechbook. From angle + a second element of uncertain identity (perhaps an unattested Old English noun *twaecca, *twicce, perhaps related to the verb twiccian).
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