ANGLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does angling mean? 

• ANGLING (noun)
  The noun ANGLING has 1 sense:

1. fishing with a hook and line (and usually a pole)

  Familiarity information: ANGLING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANGLING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fishing with a hook and line (and usually a pole)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("angling" is a kind of...):

fishing; sportfishing (the act of someone who fishes as a diversion)

Domain member category:

fish lure; fisherman's lure ((angling) any bright artificial bait consisting of plastic or metal mounted with hooks and trimmed with feathers)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "angling"):

fly-fishing (angling with an artificial fly as a lure)

troll; trolling (angling by drawing a baited line through the water)

 Context examples 

In the lowest gallery, I beheld some people fishing with long angling rods, and others looking on.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)