▪ I. angling, vbl. n.1
(ˈæŋglɪŋ)
[f. angle v.1]
1. The action or art of fishing with a rod.
| 1496 Bk. St. Albans, Fysshynge 1, Fysshynge, callyd Anglynge wyth a rodde. 1580 Lyly Euphues 396 The ende of fishing is catching, not anglyng. 1606 Shakes. Ant. & Cl. ii. v. 16 When You wager'd on your Angling. 1653 Walton Angler 246 Hate contentions, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and angling. 1796 Morse Amer. Geog. I. 479 Amusing to those who are fond of angling. 1823 Byron Juan xiii. cvi, Angling too, that solitary vice, Whatever Izaak Walton sings or says. |
2. fig. (see angle v. 2.)
| 1674 N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 91 Jet and straw, loadstone and iron, with some others of that hooking kind: where, setting aside their angling and groping one for another, etc. 1828 Carlyle Misc. (1857) I. 113 Such juggleries, and uncertain anglings for distinction. |
3. attrib. and Comb., as in angling books, angling literature, etc.; † angling-hook, a fish-hook; angling-rod, † angling-wand, a fishing-rod.
| 1867 F. Francis Angling i. (1880) 2 The stock of angling literature. 1883 Athenæum 3 Mar. 274/3 Every collector of angling books..can thus..hanker after the many prizes of angling bibliomania. 1549 Coverdale Erasm. Paraphr. James iii. 8 It hydeth under the bayte of pleasure, the very angling hoke of death. 1552 Huloet, Angling gad, or rodde, Pertica. 1598 Florio, Lungagnola, a fishing rod, a fishing pole, an angling rod. 1814 Wordsw. Excurs. ii. 662 A broken angling-rod. 1834 Bancroft Hist. U.S. (1876) IV. xxxv. 573 They brought angling-rods. 1565 in Nares s.v., You will use a long anglyng-wand to catch some knowledg. |
▪ II. † ˈangling, vbl. n.2 Obs. rare.
[f. angle v.2]
The action of making angles with (anything).
| 1570 Dee Math. Præf. 42 Certaine..Sterres..their Coniunctions, and Anglynges with the Planetes, etc. |