angle-rodn.

c1450 Treat. Fysshynge wyth Angle (1883) 4 (MED) Þe disporte and game of fyschyng with an angul rode.

1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccccvi. 706 He had bene more vsed to fisshe with an angle rod.

1591 R. Greene Second Pt. Conny-catching sig. E4 This longe hooke..is made with ioyntes like an angle rod.

1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler viii. 170 Before you undertake your tryal of skil by the Angle-Rod . View more context for this quotation

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 108. ¶3 He makes a May-fly to a Miracle; and furnishes the whole Country with Angle-Rods.

1800 E. Darwin Phytologia ii. xiii. 313 Wires wrapped round tall rods, like angle rods, or elevated on buildings.

1820 W. Irving Sketch Bk. vii. 31 Those worthy gentlemen who are given to haunt the sides of pastoral streams with angle rods in hand.

1881 B. Brierley Ab-o'th'-Yate's Dict. 11 Angle-rod, a long, slender stick, wi' a line at one end, an' sometimes a foo at th' tother. It's supposed to be used for catchin fish with.

1908 T. Common tr. F. Nietzsche Thus spake Zarathustra (ed. 2) iii. viii. 32 They sit all day at swamps with angle-rods, and on that account think themselves profound; but whoever fisheth where there are no fish, I call him not even superficial!