woodworm

IPA: wˈʊdwɝm

Any of many beetle larvae that bore into wood.
(particularly) Anobium punctatum (common furniture beetle).
A shipworm, a worm-like mollusk in the family Teredinidae that feeds on wood underwater in saltwater.

Examples of "woodworm" in Sentences

And his pegleg got woodworm and broke into three.'
Leaning at the main door of the farm you saw behind you the coming of the woodworm.
I was on Guido when he blogged about the injuries and the nutters came out of the panelling like .303 woodworm.
The presence of sap will attract woodworm, which love its sweetness, so you must cut your hazel while the sap is sunk for the winter.
They own helicopters and submarines and they can afford to spread the woodworm of corruption through poor countries, right to the top.
The amount of wildlife in the house was evident; bright orange sawdust outlined the furniture, indicating that the chairs are only staying upright because the woodworm are holding hands.
Wormwood buttering rack, Edwardian rat-hair doormat, woodworm in French fluting and the set of wooden birthing stirrups ...... are not necessarily an essential accompaniment to the modern bric a brac home, to which he adds:
There were still relics like this lurking in farm buildings when I started out on my agricultural life: I recall finding a woodworm-infected patten lying in the manger of a stable a week or so after the last draught horse had been put to sleep.