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Angler

noun

A scheming person; someone who schemes to gain an advantage.

A fisherman who uses a hook and line. Synonym: troller.

Fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey. Synonyms: allmouth, angler fish, anglerfish, goosefish, Lophius Americanus, lotte, monkfish.

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"Angler" Quotes from Famous Books

... 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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