Synonyms:
goosefish, angler, anglerfish, angler_fish, monkfish, lotte, allmouth, Lophius_Americanus
Meaning: fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey
Synonyms:
angler, troller
Meaning: a fisherman who uses a hook and line
Synonyms:
angler
Meaning: a scheming person; someone who schemes to gain an advantage
Usage examples
An angler this.
Involuntarily the angler's attention is attracted to them.
The angler chooses to let it go in the hope of picking it up on the other side.
And then, among the rocks of the reef, the line breaks; the angler's body drifts in among the reeds.
At such times the angler may try to tempt her with spoon or other artificial bait, or with live fish, but she will not touch them!
The boat quivered, and the angler started and let the main-sail down, while the black wind from the frayed clouds raged under the heavens.
On parting with the old angler I inquired after his place of abode, and, happening to be in the neighborhood of the village a few evenings afterwards, I had the curiosity to seek him out.
Thus harnessed for the field, he was as great a matter of stare and wonderment among the country folk, who had never seen a regular angler, as was the steel-clad hero of La Mancha among the goatherds of the Sierra Morena.
I soon fell into conversation with the old angler, and was so much entertained that, under pretext of receiving instructions in his art, I kept company with him almost the whole day, wandering along the banks of the stream and listening to his talk.
He wore a broad-skirted fustian coat, perplexed with half a hundred pockets; a pair of stout shoes and leathern gaiters; a basket slung on one side for fish; a patent rod, a landing net, and a score of other inconveniences only to be found in the true angler's armory.