† ˈangle-hook Obs.
[f. angle n.1, when that word (orig. = hook) had been extended to the line, or rod and line.]
A fish-hook. Also fig.
| c 1374 Chaucer Compl. Mars 238 And lyke a fissher..Bateth hys angle-hoke [v.r. angil hooke, anglise hewkis] with summe plesaunce. 1382 Wyclif Isa. xix. 8 Fissheres, and alle into the flod puttende the angil hoc. c 1449 Pol. Poems (1859) II. 222 The Fisshere hathe lost his hangulhooke. 1604 Jerilo Fr. Bacon's Proph. 231 in E.P.P. IV. 276 Then love went not by lookes..Nor words were Angle-hookes. |