Now the booming ground was empty, save for those decaying, teredo-eaten sticks, and the camp was a tumbledown ruin when he passed.
"The Hidden Places"
Bertrand W. Sinclair
In its interior is a teredo, a boring worm; but the other pearl is sound and secure against breakage."
"Supplemental Nights, Volume 1"
Richard F. Burton
But the rubbish, a great deal of it, was what Dick and his brother would have liked to keep, as much of it consisted of pieces of heavy black wood pierced by teredo and covered with barnacles.
"Menhardoc"
George Manville Fenn