Pälm’er-worm, n.

(pä m’er-wûrm), n. A kind of hairy worm; — a name loosely applied to various hairy caterpillars which travel or wander, as it were, like a palmer or pilgrim, and devour leaves and herbage; — applied also to other voracious insects.

That which the palmer-worm hath left, hath the locust eaten. Joel i. 4.