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▪ I. angler1|ˈæŋglə(r)|
[f. angle v.1 + -er1.]
1. a. One who angles or fishes with a hook and line.
1552Huloet, Angler or fysher with an angle, Hamota. 1597Bp. Hall Sat. v, Seest thou the wary angler trayle along His feeble line? 1653Walton Angler 8 The Primitive Christians..were (as most Anglers are) quiet men and followed peace. 1722De Foe Moll Flan. (1840) 147, I played with this lover as an angler does with a trout. 1867F. Francis Angling iii. (1880) 78 When the angler essays his skill upon the wily old veterans of the pond.
b. fig.; spec. in Thieves' Cant: see quot. 1673. Obs. Also in extended use (see quot. 1903) in U.S.
1567T. Harman Caveat 16 These hokers or Angglears be peryllous and most wicked knaues. 1592Nashe P. Penilesse (ed. 2) 28 b, Noble Lord Warden of the Wenches and Anglers. [i.e. ‘the Diuell.’] 1612Dekker O per se O sig. N4v, Hee is an Angler for Duds, who hath a Ferme in the Nab of his Filch. 1673R. Head Canting Academy 68 Anglers are so called, because they have a Rod or Stick with an Iron hook at the end of it, with which they Angle in the night at Windows or any other place in which they cannot convey their hand. 1823‘Jon Bee’ Dict. Slang 4 Anglers, thieves who with a hook at the end of a mop⁓stick drag to them the ends of cloth which may lie exposed, and so pull out entire pieces. 1903S. Clapin New Dict. Americanisms 19 Angler, in thieves' slang, a street prowler, generally belonging to a gang of petty thieves, and who is always on the lookout for opportunities to commit small larcenies.
2. Zool. In full angler-fish. A British fish, called also Sea Devil, Frog Fish, Toad Fish, and Fishing Frog (Lophius piscatorius Linn.), so named from its preying upon small fish, which it attracts by the movement of certain wormlike filaments attached to the head and mouth. Also applied to other pediculate fishes having a free dorsal spine, as in the family Antennariidæ.
1653[see sea-angler]. 1766Pennant Zool. III. 122 (Jod.), I have changed the old name of fishing frog to the more simple one of angler. 1845[see toad-fish]. 1867F. Francis Angling i. (1880) 1 The Angler or Fishing-frog has..a rod, line, and bait appended to its nose. 1884Goode Nat. Hist. Aquatic Anim. 173 Marbled Angler, Pterophryne histrio. 1889Cent. Dict., Angler-fish. 1902Westm. Gaz. 28 Jan. 1/3 An enormous specimen of the rare and curious angler-fish (Lophius piscatorius) known as the ‘Fishing Frog’. 1951R. Campbell Light on dark Horse xix. 274 The fishing frog or angler-fish.
▪ II. † ˈangler2 Obs. rare—1.
[f. angle n.2 + -er1.]
One who occupies an angle.
1726Amherst Terræ Filius App. 295 To desert one place, which he then enjoy'd for life, and the well-grounded expectation of another, in order to become a precarious angler in your hall. [Dr. Richard Newton, principal of Hart Hall, Oxford, 1710–53, incorporated in 1740 as Hertford College, among his rules for its reform, prescribed, ‘One tutor is to lodge in the middle room of the middle staircase in each angle of the College court.’] |