Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act, process, or art of fishing with a hook and line and usually a rod.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act or art of fishing with a rod and line; rod-fishing.
Wiktionary
- v. fishing present participle of angle.
- n. a form of fishing, with a rod, line and angle (hook) for recreation or sport
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of one who angles; the art of fishing with rod and line.
WordNet 3.0
- n. fishing with a hook and line (and usually a pole)
Examples
“One of the most perplexing things in all of angling is how fish see and respond to color.”
“Instead, my sister would tell me stories about the bear in the ceiling – there was proof of his existence, you could see the crack angling from the doorway to halfway across the room – who would become restless and crash down on us if I kept talking and he heard me.”
“An American book on angling is a novelty, and yet America has "thousands of brooks, creeks, rivers, lakes, bays, and inlets" which "abound in game-fish.”
“Blackwood's Magazine, an important landmark in English angling literature.”
“There is also a visual timeline that highlights great milestones in angling history (e.g. Kim Bain-Moore, the first woman to compete in the Bassmaster Classic, other historic Team Evinrude moments, Ole Evinrude’s invention of the outboard motor in 1909, etc.).”
Evinrude Travelling Repower Exhibit Brings Pro Anglers, Money Saving Tips to New Orleans Boaters
“The first progressive, Teddy Roosevelt, angered at his successor, Taft, spent most of Taft’s first term angling for the republicans to toss him out.”
“Disgracing the predominantly southern, rural, Christian sport of angling, which is school-speak for fishing, by the way.”
“It looks like a banana, casts like a blimp, and might have the wildest wiggle in angling.”
“It should also be packaged together with shark catch-and-tag angling, whale and bird watching and other marine experiences like the amazing sardine run as part of "an Eastern Cape marine experience", he said.”
“British pilots in the First World War quickly discovered the correct method, and even today there are a few octogenarians around who recall angling their SE-5s into dives a few degrees off target heading.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘angling’.
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Junk
walrus, fascination, broadway, fickle, downturn, bridge, gargle, rotunda, mesh, fab, shortlife, strumming and 304 more...
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A list
clench, shudder, clamp, twisting, sharply, thrusting, crashing, pulsing, curling, thrumming, rippling, wrench and 94 more...
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Palabrarium
The delicious wonderful words that I love terribly dearly and without which, the world would be a less inventive and worthwhile place. Also, ostensibly, the reason 1984 and esperanto secretly suck.
panoply, footpad, piccalilli, snickersnee, marl, hispid, greengage, slumgullion, golliwog, mumbletypeg, circumlocution, quiescent and 366 more...
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