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angler

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an·gler  (ngglr)
n.
1. One who fishes with a hook.
2. A scheming person.
3. An anglerfish.

angler [ˈæŋglə]
n
1. (Individual Sports & Recreations / Angling) a person who fishes with a rod and line
2. Informal a person who schemes or uses devious methods to secure an advantage
3. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) Also called angler fish any spiny-finned fish of the order Pediculati (or Lophiiformes). They live at the bottom of the sea and typically have a long spiny movable dorsal fin with which they lure their prey
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.angler - a scheming personangler - a scheming person; someone who schemes to gain an advantage
plotter, schemer - a planner who draws up a personal scheme of action
2.angler - a fisherman who uses a hook and lineangler - a fisherman who uses a hook and line
fisher, fisherman - someone whose occupation is catching fish
3.angler - fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring preyangler - fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey
family Lophiidae, Lophiidae - large-headed marine fishes comprising the anglers
acanthopterygian, spiny-finned fish - a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays
monkfish - flesh of a large-headed anglerfish of the Atlantic waters of North America

angler
noun fisherman, fisher, piscator or piscatrix a thinking angler with tremendous ability
Translations
angler [ˈæŋgləʳ] Npescador(a) m/f (de caña)

angler [ˈæŋglər] npêcheur/euse m/f (à la ligne)

angler
nAngler(in) m(f)

angler [ˈæŋgləʳ] npescatore m con la lenza

angler سمك الشص rybář lystfisker Angler ψαράς pescador onkija pêcheur pecač pescatore con lenza 魚を釣る人 낚시꾼 visser sportsfisker wędkarz pescador рыбак fritidsfiskare นักตกปลา olta balıkçısı người câu cá 垂钓者


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It is in the circumstantial detail, the embellishing touches of probability, the general air of scrupulous - almost of pedantic - veracity, that the experienced angler is seen.
A solitary angler stood casting his fly at a turn in the stream where the backwater lay still and deep under an overhanging bank.
Let me confess, then, that I assumed the character of a fastidious angler, and managed to be a week in discovering the right place to fish in--always, it is unnecessary to say, under Alicia's guidance.
 
 
 
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