Around the same time, an invasive worm called the teredo ravaged the docks and pilings along the waterfront, and periodic fires wiped out most of the buildings.    From Wordnik.com.  [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference

A salt-water creature very destructive to shipping and the wharves is the teredo, or ship-worm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of California] Reference

Analysis of the wood revealed that it had been infested by teredo ship worms, which are native to the Caribbean.    From Wordnik.com.  [Before the Big Apple] Reference

A caterpillar also is engendered in hives, of a species nicknamed the teredo, or ‘borer’, with which creature the bee never interferes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Animals] Reference

The protection was needed only during the time the caisson was afloat and before it was entirely submerged below the riverbed, where the sea worm, the teredo, never penetrates.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Bridge] Reference

The refitting included covering the wooden hull with copper sheets to protect it from teredo worms and to discourage barnacles and other marine organisms from fouling (and thereby, slowing) the ship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reclaiming the Bounty] Reference

Nevertheless, to me, who had just come to town from a quiet country seclusion into which news made its entry teredo-fashion only, the performances of the Agamemnon and Niagara were matters of fresh and vivid interest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861] Reference

C: \netsh interface teredo set state enterpriseclient.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

It is not touched by the teredo and other marine worms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges] Reference

They were pierced in all parts by the teredo or worm which abounds in the tropical seas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Volume II)] Reference

IPv6 is free and EVERYBODY (using either native, 6to4, or teredo) can use IPv6 right now!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Government Computer News Current Issue] Reference

At Puerto Bello he was obliged to leave another vessel, for she had been riddled by the teredo.    From Wordnik.com.  [The life of Christopher Columbus: from his own letters and journals and other documents of his time.] Reference

Did the deadly teredo bore the ship's timbers full of holes, until she went down with all on board?.    From Wordnik.com.  [South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure] Reference

They here remained until the 23rd, endeavouring to repair their vessels, which were fearfully pierced by the teredo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold] Reference

Quatrefages proposed to destroy the teredo in harbors by impregnating the water with a mineral solution fatal to them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth as Modified by Human Action] Reference

The teredo, so destructive to shipping, has been carried by the vessels whose wooden walls it mines to almost every part of the globe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth as Modified by Human Action] Reference

I would not have ventured again, but our whaler is as bad, -- all eaten by the teredo, -- so I thought it as well to take both, and stick to that which swims longest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Personal Life of David Livingstone] Reference

When wind sank and blue came back, we left Puerto Bello and turned again south by east, but now with crazy, crazy ships, weather-wrenched and worm-eaten, teredo pierced.    From Wordnik.com.  [1492,] Reference

By the end of April, with a favourable wind, Columbus left the disastrous shores of Veragua; but his ships, honeycombed by the teredo, could with difficulty be kept afloat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold] Reference

The ships were pierced by the teredo, which eats through thick timbers, and is so destructive that the seamen of later times have learned to sheath the hulls of their vessels with copper.    From Wordnik.com.  [The life of Christopher Columbus: from his own letters and journals and other documents of his time.] Reference

He continued on to Puerto Bello, where he found that one of his caravels was so pierced by the teredo that he was compelled to leave her behind, and to divide her crew between the two remaining vessels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold] Reference

She had not been there long when it was discovered that her bottom was perforated by the teredo, and it appeared a short time before that a Dutch vessel had been entirely destroyed by them in less than two months.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold] Reference

It bores men's courage worse than the teredo a ship's bottom! ".    From Wordnik.com.  [1492,] Reference

And a serious teredo worm infestation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » 170 House Republicans rebuff Steele by voting to ban RNC’s ‘Census’ mailer.] Reference

I would not have ventured again, but our whaler is as bad, ” all eaten by the teredo, ” so I thought it as well to take both, and stick to that which swims longest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Personal Life Of David Livingstone]

The ships were riddled by the teredo.    From Wordnik.com.  [1492,] Reference

The teredo, or ship-worm?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges] Reference