groundworm

Noun

 * 1)  earthworm
 * 2) * 1828, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson: with annotations, Volume 1, Houghton Mifflin (1909), Journal XIX, p. 239
 * They are scheming and talking, as if they belonged, like a toad or a ground-worm, to the acre on which they were born: