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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
angler
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
other
▪ If a swim stubbornly remains dead, take a walk along the bank to see how any other anglers are faring.
▪ The club fear that other anglers in their area have also recognised the Wyre Boat Angling Club from the article.
■ NOUN
carp
▪ The thing to remember is this: modern tackle, fancy baits and productive waters do not make a carp angler.
▪ A successful carp angler still has to know his fish.
▪ The fish nutritionist is really the scientist the carp angler needs to talk to for both their aims are similar.
▪ Both the carp angler and the fish nutritionist want the carp to take their bait or diet.
▪ Many other fishermen think carp anglers are mad because they can go for days without a bite.
▪ Redmire itself is one such spiritual water and is the altar where every devoted carp angler would like to worship.
▪ It is the same economics that ought to influence the carp angler.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Could George Seifert, master angler, off-season family man and ferociously successful coach, never get the benefit of the doubt?
▪ Fish are pretty tough and if anglers are careful they suffer very little damage.
▪ Fishing has been patchy due to the cool temperatures but anglers expect it to get better when the winds turn south westerly.
▪ It's a busy time on the Mersey for sea anglers as the winter whiting and cod come within casting range.
▪ It is fair to warn anglers that thousands of crabs soon make short work of rag and lugworm.
▪ Match anglers often complain about bad, or should I say thoughtless, pegging.
▪ The boat is rowed slowly round the lough whilst an angler sitting in the stern casts out at right angles.
▪ Voice over Despite the flooding, one angler at Ross on Wye was determined to enjoy his sport.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Angler

Angler \An"gler\, n.

  1. One who angles.

  2. (Zo["o]l.) A fish ( Lophius piscatorius), of Europe and America, having a large, broad, and depressed head, with the mouth very large. Peculiar appendages on the head are said to be used to entice fishes within reach. Called also fishing frog, frogfish, toadfish, goosefish, allmouth, monkfish, etc.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
angler

"fisher with a hook and line," mid-15c. (c.1300 as a surname); agent noun from angle (v.1).

Wiktionary
angler

n. 1 A person who fishes with a hook and line. 2 An angler fish, ''Lophius piscatorius''. 3 Someone who tries to work an angle; a person who schemes or has an ulterior motive. 4 (context 1811 English) A thief who uses a hooked stick to steal goods out of shop-windows, grates, etc.

WordNet
angler
  1. n. a scheming person; someone who schemes to gain an advantage

  2. a fisherman who uses a hook and line [syn: troller]

  3. fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey [syn: goosefish, anglerfish, angler fish, monkfish, lotte, allmouth, Lophius Americanus]

Wikipedia
Angler

Angler may refer to:

  • A fisherman who uses the fishing technique of angling
  • Angler (video game)
  • The angler, Lophius piscatorius, a monkfish
  • More generally, any anglerfish in the order Lophiiformes
  • Angler (comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain
  • Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency, a book written by Barton Gellman in 2008 about Vice President Dick Cheney, whose Secret Service codename was "Angler".
  • The Huawei Nexus 6P, codename angler
Angler (video game)

Angler is a British fishing video game that was published in 1983 by Virgin Games for the ZX Spectrum home computer.

Usage examples of "angler".

And bound to a rope amidmost were the women fair and young, And youths and little children, like the fish on a withy strung As they lie on the grass for the angler before the beginning of night.

In every snickert and ginnel, bone-grubbers, rufflers, shivering-jemmies, anglers, clapperdogeons, peterers, sneeze-lurkers and Whip Jacks with their morts, out of the picaroon, fox and flimp and ogle.

Now and then a flicker of small jellyfish flew past, and occasionally an angler fish or a big-mouthed gulper eel.

One of the boatmen on another boat called to us that his angler had fought a mako for two hours, and had lost it.

When we came upon the two anglers they had brought up a two-hundred-pound mako and at the moment were quite busily engaged.

Perched on a jutting eminence, and half shrouded in the bushes which clothed it, the silent fisherman took his place, while his fly was made to kiss the water in capricious evolutions, such as the experienced angler knows how to employ to beguile the wary victim from close cove, or gloomy hollow, or from beneath those decaying trunks of overthrown trees which have given his brood a shelter from immemorial time.

Vainly he hopes for the muskellunge who has just gone somewhere else, but, by the same token, the sure-enough angler is ready to go out next morning, rain or shine, at sunrise.

Most of the pros I talked to in Cozumel were reluctant, at first, to speak on this subject -- at least for the record -- but after the third or fourth drink, they would invariably come around to suggesting that anglers were more of a hazard than a help and, as a general rule of thumb, you could catch more fish by just jamming the rod into a holder on the rear end of the boat and letting the fish do the work.

After two or three days on the boats, the most generous consensus I could get from the pros was that even the best angler is worth about a ten percent advantage in a tournament, and that most are seen as handicaps.

Health agencies have warned anglers not to eat any largemouth bass or warmouth caught in Conservation Areas 2 and 3.

It was an even break for the anglers, both baits abreast, with fame for the lucky one.

The Water Figwort may be readily known by the winged corners of its stems, which, though hollow and succulent, are rigid when dead, and prove very troublesome to anglers.

Towards the pierhead, where anglers foregather when the tide is in, he finds a well-sheltered bench overlooking the sea, and sits down.

The senior sergeant on duty at Taupo that night was an ardent angler who had fished most of the rivers and streams in his region.

Health agencies have warned anglers not to eat any largemouth bass or warmouth caught in Conservation Areas 2 and 3.