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noun

Angler n.

One who angles.

(Zool.) A fish (Lophius piscatorius), of Europe and America, having a large, broad, and depressed head, with the mouth very large. Peculiar appendages on the head are said to be used to entice fishes within reach. Called also fishing frog, frogfish, toadfish, goosefish, allmouth, monkfish, etc.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... brown-bark western birch characteristic of lower stream tangles—is a spoil sport. It grows thickly to choke the stream that feeds it; grudges it the sky and space for angler's rod and fly. The willows do better; painted-cup, cypripedium, and the hollow stalks of span-broad white umbels, find a footing among their stems. But in general the steep plunges, the white swirls, green and tawny pools, the gliding hush of waters between ...

— The Land Of Little Rain • Mary Hunter Austin

... angler at Southend-on-Sea fished up a silver chain purse containing four one-pound notes. His claim that a large leather wallet containing several fivers and a diamond ring broke the line and got away after a terrific struggle is being received with ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 1, 1920 • Various

... The Thames angler who was asked in the Club at night if he had had any luck that day, and replied that he had not had a bite, is ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. CLVIII, January 7, 1920 • Various

... half-hour a rocket soared aloft and broke in a curve of stars in the black sky. It was one of Nelson's repeating frigates signalling to the British fleet, far off to the south-west, Villeneuve's movements. Nelson for more than a week had been trying to daintily coax Villeneuve out of Cadiz, as an angler might try to coax a much-experienced trout from the cool depths of some deep pool. He kept the main body of his fleet sixty leagues distant—west of Cape St. Mary—but kept a chain of frigates within signalling distance of each other betwixt Cadiz and himself. He allowed ...

— Deeds that Won the Empire - Historic Battle Scenes • W. H. Fitchett

... not absolutely certain that the following Poem was written by EDMUND SPENSER, and found by an Angler buried in ...

— The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Vol I and II • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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