Definition of "worm-cast" [worm-cast]

• The cylindrical casting of a worm; the slender tubular mass of earth voided by the common earthworm after digestion. (noun)
• The fossil cast, mold, or track of a worm or some vermiform creature; a helminthite or helmintholite; a worm-burrow. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The ball started on a grotesquely wrong line, turned on a rise in the ground, cannoned off a worm-cast and plopped into the tin."
• "Undying coquetry, as Mr. Stevenson so finely remarked, awoke, for the topic preceding the worm-cast had been "the sex.""
• "That being settled, the still undecided point about the worm-cast gave rise to a good deal of heat, until, it being discovered that the window was open, and that their voices might easily carry as far as the garden-room, they made malignant rejoinders to each other in whispers."