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ANGLING
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I. (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)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb angle
