A lump of lead (or occasionally other metal) used as a weight, as in a clock or on a fishing line. Obsolete.

Angling. A weight attached to a fishing line, used to keep the float upright, to anchor a ledger bait, or to measure the depth of the water.

A ‘bob’ or lump of lead suspended by a string to ascertain the depth of water; a sounding-lead. Phrases, to cast, heave the lead. to arm the lead…

A weight of lead, stone, or other material for sinking a fishing line or net beneath the water. Also figurative. Cf. sinkstone, n. 2.

a large size of shot, used for shooting swans; also used in angling as a weight.

A stone sinker for submerging a fishing line, net, or other object in water.

a weight used to sink a net in fishing.

= net sinker n.

A lead weight used in fishing; = sinker, n.1 5a. Now somewhat rare.

The angler's plumb or sinker.

The action of weighting with shot; esp. in Angling, the weighting of the line with shot.