Catchword: grunt

Filed under: English, Animals, Insects, & Birds

Part of speech: v.

Quotation: Gary Revell gets up every morning before sunrise, heads into the woods and grunts. Not because it’s so early. It’s the term for coaxing worms from the ground by the hundreds to be scooped up and plopped in a tin can until he can sell them for fishing bait. He pounds a two-foot wooden “stob” or stake into the earth and rubs it with a 10-pound piece of flat iron. The vibration or “grunting” causes worms to panic, and they wriggle from the ground. For years it was just a guess why.

Article or document title:
“Moles, not magic, makes worm ‘grunting’ work” (URL)

Author:
Brenda Farrington

Article, document, publication, web site:
Associated Press

Dateline:
Tate’s Hell, Florida

Date of publication:
June 12, 2009

This catchword has yet to be researched.