ˈfishing-rod
[f. fishing vbl. n.]
1. A long slender tapering rod to which a line is attached for angling. Formerly called also angle-rod.
| 1552 Huloet, Fishing rodde, calamus. 1591 Percivall Sp. Dict., Veleta, the toppe of a fishing rodde, tragula. 1706 Farquhar Recruiting Officer iv. ii, You have some⁓thing like a fishing-rod there. 1861 W. F. Collier Hist. Eng. Lit. 175 Izaak Walton, who wielded pen and fishing-rod with equal love and skill, was born at Stafford in 1593. |
2. attrib. and Comb.
| 1892 Vermont Agric. Rep. XII. 135 At Thetford a large fishing rod manufactory has been quite successful. 1896 Daily News 17 June 7/5 The car is to be driven by electricity conveyed by overhead wires, the current being caught by a fishing-rod projection from the car. 1904 Westm. Gaz. 1 July 4/1 There is no novelty..in the fishing-rod [golf] clubs. 1953 J. S. Huxley Evol. in Action iv. 101 Fitting two sticks together by a fishing-rod joint. |