angling

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1. angling - Noun

2. angling - Verb

Meaning

of Angle

The act of one who angles; the art of fishing with rod and line.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned. Izaak Walton

Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other. Samuel Johnson

Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself. Izaak Walton

You will find angling to be like the virtue of humility, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of other blessings attending upon it. Izaak Walton

We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries: "Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did"; and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. Izaak Walton

God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. Izaak Walton

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