| 单词 | angle-hook | 
| 释义 | angle-hookn. Now rare.   A fish hook. Also figurative. Cf. angle n.1 1. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > hook > 			[noun]		 angleeOE hookc950 angle-hooka1382 fish-hooka1387 preen1469 angling hook1549 fishing-hook1725 a1382    Bible 		(Wycliffite, E.V.)	 		(Douce 369(1))	 		(1850)	 Isa. xix. 8  				Mourne shul the fissheres..into the flod puttende the angil hoc [L. hamum]. a1450						 (c1385)						    G. Chaucer Complaint of Mars 		(Tanner 346)	 		(1871)	 l. 238  				Like a fissher..Bayteth his angle hoke [?c1450 Pepys angil hooke, c1500 Selden anglise hewkis] with summe plesaunce. c1450    in  R. H. Robbins Hist. Poems 14th & 15th Cent. 		(1959)	 202  				The ffisshere hathe lost his hangulhook. 1556    J. Withals Short Dict. 		(new ed.)	 sig. Iiij/2  				An angler, or fissher with an angle hooke, hamiota. 1592    T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse 		(Huntington Libr. copy)	 sig. B  				His Cappe furd with cats skins, after the Muscouie fashion, and all to be tasseld with Angle-hookes in stead of Aglets. 1604    W. Terilo Piece of Frier Bacons Proph. sig. C3v  				Then loue went not by lookes,..Nor words were Angle-hookes. 1614    G. Markham 2nd Bk. Eng. Husbandman  i. sig. A3 		(heading)	  				Of Angle Hookes. 1899    tr.  R. W. Semon In Austral. Bush x. 218  				Near the coast a heavy, generally many-pointed, fish-spear is principally in use, whilst fishing with angle-hooks is quite unknown. 1921    R. T. Hopkins Kipling's Sussex xiii. 230  				Rain had not fallen for three years, but Wilfrid taught the people to fish with an angle-hook and thus relieve much distress. 1962    Rev. Eng. Stud. 13 401  				This Lord Fauconberg..was known as the Fisher, because of his badge, the angle-hook. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). <  | 
	
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