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angling Definition

an·gling (aŋ′gliŋ)

noun

the act or skill of fishing with hook and line

Etymology: < angle

angling Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • promote: Among other things they are very keen to promote angling among young people in the communities along the Lowland canals.
  • enjoy: An ideal place to visit if you enjoy angling.

Adjective modifier

  • coarse: Carlisle & District Coarse Angling Club Covering coarse angling in the Cumbria area.
  • peculiar: And extras such to help passengers make her dream the peculiar angling.
  • recreational: The economic importance of recreational angling has often been underestimated or ignored by decision-makers but this situation is changing.
  • Scottish: To our knowledge this is the largest cash prize in Scottish coarse angling.
  • excellent: Superb yacht cruising area plus excellent angling / small boat sailing on fresh or sea water lochs.
  • top: It couldn't have happened to a better bloke, top angling.

Modifies a noun

  • fraternity: The British Waterways advice to cyclists may cause a few comical mutterings among the angling fraternity and among some of the other towpath users.
  • club: Most of the Angling Clubs listed below also welcome new members.
  • championship: Three pairs of top anglers who fish each year in the British Carp Angling Championships.
  • journalist: His amusing report really gets you into the spirit of being an angling journalist!
  • venue: White Acres - Newquay - Click for location The premier UK angling holiday venue by a mile.
  • tourism: This project is part of a number of initiatives with the overall aim to develop better angling tourism in Scotland.

Noun used with modifier

  • trout: Scotland has much to offer in terms of top quality wild trout angling.
  • carp: LOCATION - The most important skill in carp angling.
  • pike: Other trout fisheries - notably Lake of Menteith - have successfully extended their seasons by allowing privileged access pike angling events.
  • freshwater: A range of information and studies are available on sea angling, freshwater angling and the social and economic value of angling in Europe.
  • sea: Day 10: optional kayaking, sea angling, hiking or horse riding in the area.
  • salmon: The result, as all the world now knows, has been that salmon angling collapsed.
angling Quotes

Angling issomewhat like poetry, men areto be bornso: I mean with inclination to it.

—Walton, Izaak

Angling may be saidtobe so likemathematics, that itcan never be fully learnt.

—Walton, Izaak

Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I canonlycomparetoa stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.

—Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson

Sir Henry Wotton†was also a most dear lover, and a frequent practiser of the art of angling; of which he would say,'it was anemployment forhisidletime†a rest to his mind, a cheerer of his spirits, a diverter of sadness, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of passions, a procurer of contentedness; and that it begat habits of peace and patience in those that professed and practised it.'

—Walton, Izaak

What isscience? Science is angling in the mudöangling for immortalityand for anything elsethat may happen to turn up.

—Huxley, Aldous Leonard