Definitions for angler

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angler an·gler

Spelling: [ang-gler]

IPA: /ˈæŋ glər/

Angler is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 139 anagrams from letters in angler (aeglnr).

Definitions for angler

noun

1. a person who fishes with a hook and line.
2. a person who gets or tries to get something through scheming.
3. Also called allmouth, anglerfish, goosefish, lotte, monkfish. any large pediculate fish of the family Lophiidae, especially Lophius americanus, found along the Atlantic coast of America, having an immense mouth and a large, depressed head to which is attached a wormlike filament for luring prey.
4. Also called anglerfish. any of various related fishes of the order Lophiiformes.

Origin of angler

First recorded in 1545-55; angle² + -er¹

Examples for angler

But the angler is baffled at the outset by the presence of a steep slope behind him.

There was a splash—a soft gurgling sound dear to the angler's heart.

I had a friend once, an angler, who in winter was fond of another sport.

Like the angler, he is an artist, and the resemblance does not end here.

That story can be found on pp. 195-196 of Barton Gellman's to-date definitive study of the Cheney vice presidency, angler.

Thus, by a series of divisions, we have arrived at the definition of the angler's art.

Let every angler who loves to fish think what it would mean to him to find the fish were gone.

I took thee for an angler, and thou art but a poaching knave!

If the angler rests the tuna will not only rest, too, but he will take more and more line.

Too frequently the angler is vexed by finding a boat busy in his favourite bay.