Hair-eel, the form into which horse-hairs left to soak in running water are preposterously assumed by many to develop. The hair-eel or horse-hair worm is really a Nematode (q.v.); see also EEL, THREAD-WORMS.
Hair-eel
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 508
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