Crossword clues for angler
angler
- Reel man
- Cast party?
- Bait buyer
- One with a line
- One opening a can of worms?
- One hoping to find a school
- One awaiting a catch
- Izaak Walton, e.g
- Fishing pier figure
- Deep-sea fish
- Casting expert
- User of a line and hook
- Rod-and-reel wielder
- Person at the end of the line
- One with a bass line
- One who tries a few lines
- One who fishes
- One wearing waders, perhaps
- One playing the bass?
- One in a fighting chair
- One catching with flies, maybe
- One casting
- Line dropper
- Fighting-chair occupant
- Catfish hunter?
- Casting pro
- One who's casting about?
- Fisherman of sorts
- One who opens a can of worms?
- One with a hook, line and sinker
- One opening up a can of worms?
- Rod user
- Fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey
- A fisherman who uses a hook and line
- A scheming person
- Someone who schemes to gain an advantage
- Piscator
- Izaak Walton, e.g.
- Walton's "The Compleat ___"
- Marine fish that lures other fish
- He may get the blues
- I. Walton was one
- One using hook, line and sinker?
- One patiently sitting at the riverside left in rage
- Strong feeling about large person fastening flies?
- Schemer pulled switcheroo to learn about source of gold
- Fisherman’s view beside river
- Fisher King getting point of view over
- Visitor to bank, perhaps, left in indignation
- He hopes to catch large number at sea
- A western figure briefly clear of the seabed
- Certain fisherman
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Angler \An"gler\, n.
One who angles.
(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
"fisher with a hook and line," mid-15c. (c.1300 as a surname); agent noun from angle (v.1).
Wiktionary
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
n. a scheming person; someone who schemes to gain an advantage
a fisherman who uses a hook and line [syn: troller]
fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey [syn: goosefish, anglerfish, angler fish, monkfish, lotte, allmouth, Lophius Americanus]
Wikipedia
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 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.