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Shipworm
Webster's Dictionary
(n.) Any long, slender, worm-shaped bivalve mollusk of Teredo and allied genera. The shipworms burrow in wood, and are destructive to wooden ships, piles of wharves, etc. See Teredo.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Shipworm'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/s/shipworm.html. 1828.