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Synonyms for angling

Grammar : Verb
Spell : ang-gling
Phonetic Transcription : ˈæŋ glɪŋ

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Définition of angling

Origin :
  • "to fish with a hook," mid-15c., from Old English angel (n.) "angle, hook, fishhook," related to anga "hook," from PIE *ang-/*ank- "to bend" (see angle (n.)). Cf. Old English angul, Old Norse öngull, Old High German angul, German Angel "fishhook." Figurative sense is recorded from 1580s.
  • It is but a sory lyfe and an yuell to stand anglynge all day to catche a fewe fisshes. [John Palsgrave, 1530]
  • Related: Angled; angling.
  • verb fish
  • verb attempt
Example sentences :
  • Will you have Isabella, who is angling for a coronet, but would not refuse you if you are rich enough?
  • Extract from : « Tony Butler » by Charles James Lever
  • But the pleasure of angling, luckily, does not consist merely of the catching of fish.
  • Extract from : « Angling Sketches » by Andrew Lang
  • But, while the same in essence, angling has been improved by human ingenuity.
  • Extract from : « Andrew Lang's Introduction to The Compleat Angler » by Andrew Lang
  • In these blue and frigid deeps the real sport of angling is unknown.
  • Extract from : « Days Off » by Henry Van Dyke
  • "And that is angling with the fly," said he, still more decidedly.
  • Extract from : « Days Off » by Henry Van Dyke
  • She's been angling and scheming for it for years, but she will find who she has to deal with.
  • Extract from : « Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 » by Lucy Maud Montgomery
  • “He asks for another kind of angling, as I gather,” he suggested.
  • Extract from : « The Lady of Loyalty House » by Justin Huntly McCarthy
  • Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learnt.
  • Extract from : « Familiar Quotations » by John Bartlett
  • Then there are kinds known to every lover of angling, such as the perch an pike.
  • Extract from : « Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) » by Various
  • It means also a red worm used for a bait in angling or fishing.
  • Extract from : « The Sailor's Word-Book » by William Henry Smyth
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