Definitions for anglers

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anglers an·gler

Spelling: [ang-gler]

IPA: /ˈæŋ glər/

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

You can make 264 anagrams from letters in anglers (aeglnrs).

Definitions for anglers

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 anglers

First recorded in 1545-55; angle² + -er¹

Examples for anglers

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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