1. If so, lacquer might also ward off shipworm.

2. Teredo, or shipworm, can have a devastating effect on the hulls of wooden ships at sea.

3. I had taken very seriously the warnings about shipworm eating the bamboo.

4. The dreaded wood-eating shipworm is invading northern Europe's Baltic Sea.

5. So I tried to discover if there was a traditional protection against shipworm attack.