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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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"Angler" Quotes from Famous Books

... Police come at times from the Fort. And Wyckham, our neighbor. And old man Thatcher, a born angler, though he says it's ...

— The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail • Ralph Connor

... angler "good afternoon," and made a few general remarks on sport and the present unfavourable condition of the water, shrunk to mere ribbons of silver by a long summer drought. The fisherman was a stranger to Will—a handsome, stalwart man, ...

— Children of the Mist • Eden Phillpotts

... precaution of writing his autograph in each volume, as the very interesting score of examples now at Salisbury prove. His friend, Charles Cotton, of cheerful memory, was much more of a book-collector, although from the 'Angler' it would seem that his whole library was contained in his hall window. Like Walton, Cotton wrote his autograph in most of his books, which occur in the auction-room at irregular intervals. The extent or variety of the Cotton correction may be gathered ...

— The Book-Hunter in London - Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting • William Roberts

... I would be quiet and go angling it is my custom to carry in my wallet thy pretty book, "The Compleat Angler." Here, methinks, if I find not trout I shall find content, and good company, and sweet songs, fair milkmaids, and country mirth. For you are to know that trout be now scarce and whereas he was ever a fearful fish, he hath ...

— Letters to Dead Authors • Andrew Lang

... the angler is a man who goes out to catch fish; yet there is a great difference between an angler and a fishmonger. Though the angler catches no fish, though his creel be empty as he returns home at evening, there is a curious happiness and peace about ...

— Vanishing Roads and Other Essays • Richard Le Gallienne

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