单词 | angle-hook |
释义 | angle-hookn. Now rare. A fish hook. Also figurative. Cf. angle n.1 1. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > hook > [noun] angleeOE hookc950 angle-hooka1382 fish-hooka1387 preen1469 angling hook1549 fishing-hook1725 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. xix. 8 Mourne shul the fissheres..into the flod puttende the angil hoc [L. hamum]. a1450 (c1385) G. Chaucer Complaint of Mars (Tanner 346) (1871) l. 238 Like a fissher..Bayteth his angle hoke [?c1450 Pepys angil hooke, c1500 Selden anglise hewkis] with summe plesaunce. c1450 in R. H. Robbins Hist. Poems 14th & 15th Cent. (1959) 202 The ffisshere hathe lost his hangulhook. 1556 J. Withals Short Dict. (new ed.) sig. Iiij/2 An angler, or fissher with an angle hooke, hamiota. 1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Huntington Libr. copy) sig. B His Cappe furd with cats skins, after the Muscouie fashion, and all to be tasseld with Angle-hookes in stead of Aglets. 1604 W. Terilo Piece of Frier Bacons Proph. sig. C3v Then loue went not by lookes,..Nor words were Angle-hookes. 1614 G. Markham 2nd Bk. Eng. Husbandman i. sig. A3 (heading) Of Angle Hookes. 1899 tr. R. W. Semon In Austral. Bush x. 218 Near the coast a heavy, generally many-pointed, fish-spear is principally in use, whilst fishing with angle-hooks is quite unknown. 1921 R. T. Hopkins Kipling's Sussex xiii. 230 Rain had not fallen for three years, but Wilfrid taught the people to fish with an angle-hook and thus relieve much distress. 1962 Rev. Eng. Stud. 13 401 This Lord Fauconberg..was known as the Fisher, because of his badge, the angle-hook. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1382 |
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