† anglern.¹

Forms: Middle English angler, late Middle English angulere.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French anglere, piere anglere.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman anglere, angulere (in Anglo-Norman piere anglere, pere angulere cornerstone (late 13th cent. or earlier; compare Old French piere angler , piere anglere , pierre angler , Middle French, French pierre angulaire cornerstone (1190 in Old French; late 14th cent. in figurative sense ‘foundation of the Church’)) < pere , piere stone (see pier n.²) + anglere , angulere , feminine of angler , anguler angular adj., after classical Latin lapis angulāris). Compare Old Occitan anglar cornerstone, also piece of rock (c1300 or earlier).Old French angler , anglier (noun) is apparently attested only in the senses ‘remote corner’ and ‘corner of a chessboard’ (both 13th cent.); use as noun does not seem to be attested in Anglo-Norman. With the figurative use compare corner-stone n. 1b.

Obsolete.

A cornerstone; a quoin. Also figurative.

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girder1726

footstone1728

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bond-piece1862

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toothing-stone1875

bond-stone1879

pierpoint1891

jumper1904

tush1905

padstone1944

1365 in Salzman Building in Eng. 105 Anglers and scunchons.

1442 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 386 (MED) xij coynes, iiij skouchons anglers and viij Square Anglers, to the said first legement table and this seuerant table.

a1500 Mirror Salv. (Beeleigh) 114 The stone whilk the biggers reproved in the heved is made angulere... In gods temple has this angulere two wallis iognt sittingly. Crist was..Angulere of alle holy kirke in his gloriouse Resurectionne.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

anglern.²

Brit.

/ˈaŋɡlə/, U.S.

/ˈæŋɡlər/

Forms: see angle v.² and -er suffix¹; also late Middle English angleer.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: angle v.², -er suffix¹.

Etymology: < angle v.² + -er suffix¹. Compare angling n.¹, angle-rod n.Compare the following substantially earlier instance of Angeler as a surname, although it is not clear whether this shows the same word:1306 Patent Roll, 35 Edward I (P.R.O.: C 66/128) m. 45^v Bartholomei Angeler.

1. A person who fishes with a rod and line.ground, match, roach-, sea-angler, etc.: see the first element.

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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fisher > [noun] > angler

anglerc1450

piscator1674

piscatorian1694

Waltonian1832

rodsman1837

rod1848

rodman1865

rodster1867

piscatorialist1881

sport fisher1902

sport fisherman1915

sportsfisherman1928

c1450 Treat. Fysshynge wyth Angle (1883) 4 (MED) But the angleer may haue no colde ne no disese.

a1500 Piers of Fulham (James) in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1866) II. 4 (MED) Berdes byn made al day full feele wyth anglers.

1538 T. Elyot Dict. Hamiota, uel Hamota, an angler or fyssher with an angel or hoke.

1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. iv. v. 40 Seest thou the wary Angler trayle along, His feeble line.

1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler i. 8 The Primitive Christians..were (as most Anglers are) quiet men, and followed peace.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xvi. 80/1 This is by some termed a cod fish hooke; but by Fishers and Anglers it is termed a Snapper, being made with a loop at the top.

1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 169 I play'd with this Lover, as an Angler does with a Trout.

1787 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling (ed. 2) 130 The higher an angler goes up the Thames,..the more sport, and the greater variety of fish he will meet with.

1829 S. Glover Hist. County of Derby I. 177 The following..are well known to the expert angler; viz. barm fly, black fly,..knob fly.

1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling iii. 63 When the angler essays his skill upon the wily old veterans of the pond.

1916 Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) 21 Dec. 6/7 Piscatorious Jones, the enthusiastic angler, had been out for a day's fishing.

1953 M. Sprague Money Mountain (1979) iv. 37 [He] asked Bob about fishing in the district and was delighted to discover that Bob was an avid angler like himself.

2002 Daily Tel. 18 Apr. 10/4 An angler described yesterday how he struggled for two hours to land a giant porbeagle shark off Cornwall.

2. figurative and in extended use.

a. slang (originally cant). A thief who uses a hook attached to a long rod to steal from otherwise inaccessible places. Also (occasionally): a pickpocket. Now historical and rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > [noun] > who uses a hook

angler1567

hooker1567

curber1591

1567 T. Harman Caueat for Commen Cursetors (new ed.) sig. Biiii^v These hokers or Angglears be peryllous and most wicked knaues.

1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. H4 Noble Lord warden of the Wenches & Anglers [i.e. the devil].

1612 T. Dekker O per se O sig. N4^v Hee is an Angler for Duds, who hath a Ferme in the Nab of his Filch.

1673 R. Head Canting Acad. 68 Anglers are so called, because they have a Rod or Stick with an Iron hook at the end of it, with which they Angle in the night at Windows or any other place in which they cannot convey their hand.

1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth III. 126 'Mongst Merchant-Men, there's not one in ten, But what is a cunning Angler.

1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Anglers, pilferers, or petty thieves, who with a stick having a hook at the end, steal goods out of shop windows, grates, &c.

c1819 T. Moore in J. S. Farmer Musa Pedestris (1896) 83 There's not, for picking, to be had, A lad so light and larky, The cleanest angler on the pad.

1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang 4 Anglers, thieves who with a hook at the end of a mop~stick drag to them the ends of cloth which may lie exposed, and so pull out entire pieces.

1903 S. Clapin New Dict. Amer. 19 Angler, in thieves' slang, a street prowler, generally belonging to a gang of petty thieves, and who is always on the lookout for opportunities to commit small larcenies.

1999 Rev. Eng. Stud. 50 522 An ‘angler’ or ‘hooker’ being a rogue armed with a long staff, in which is inserted an iron hook or angle.

b. More generally: a person who seeks to obtain or ‘angles’ for something (cf. angle v.² 2).

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the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [noun] > contrivance or machination > one who

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Machiavel1571

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volpone1672

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manoeuvrera1805

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schemer1846

Machiavelli1849

1622 J. Hayward Davids Teares 99 One hooke sufficieth to take the fish; one snare to fetter the soule: But the Deuill is a most cunning angler, a verie expert fowler.

1625 J. Stradling Divine Poems 9 That old-Angler-for-mens-soules, some wynnes With sweetned baytes, and some with subtle gynnes.

1810 J. Porter Sc. Chiefs V. iv. 89 This arch-hypocrite, this angler for women's hearts.

1841 Gentleman's Mag. Mar. 263/1 If our friend was so expert an angler for the secrets of others, never was there a better tactician in his own affairs.

1916 W. Wilson Let. 5 Aug. in Polit. Sci. Q. (1980) 95 662 If I should change my personal attitude now I should seem to the country like nothing better than an angler for votes.

1962 A. Valentine Ld. George Germain iv. 37 Bubb Dodington, later Lord Melville, an angler for social and political influence through charming little services to the right lords and ladies.

3. Originally: a bottom-dwelling fish of European seas, Lophius piscatorius (family Lophiidae), with a large, flattened head and a wide mouth set with long, inward-pointing teeth, which attracts prey using a wormlike lure attached to the head by a slender, mobile filament; (also) a similar fish, L. americanus, of the east coast of North America. In later use also: any of numerous fishes of the order Lophiiformes (which includes the family Lophiidae) that attract prey in this way. Cf. anglerfish n. at Compounds.The order comprises several families of fishes, both pelagic and benthic, including those known as devilfish, frogfish, goosefish, and monkfish. The filament bearing the lure is a modified spine of the dorsal fin.

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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Lophiiformes (anglers) > [noun] > member of

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pediculate1880

the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Lophiiformes (anglers) > [noun] > family Lophiidae > lophius piscatorius (angler)

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nass-fish1666

angler1776

pocket-fish1796

kettle-mawa1798

wide-gab1807

anglerfish1854

round robin1880

dragon-

1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler i. 22 For this reason some have called this fish the Sea-Angler. ]

1776 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, octavo) III. iv. 122 I..have changed the old name of Fishing Frog for the more simple one of Angler.

a1798 T. Pennant Journey London to Isle of Wight (1801) II. 74 The common angler..from the vast width of its mouth, it is called here the Kettle-maw.

1845 P. H. Gosse Ocean (1849) vii. 342 The Toad-fishes, or Anglers (Antennarius), whose pectoral and ventral fins have much of the form and also the functions of the feet of a quadruped.

1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling i. 1 The Angler or Fishing-frog..has..a rod, line, and bait appended to its nose.

1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 173 Marbled Angler, Pterophryne histrio.

1913 C. Pettman Africanderisms 360 Lophius upsicephalus, known at East London as the devil-fish or angler.

1930 Biol. Bull. 58 221 The goosefish..is one of the anglers and attracts its prey by a lure on one of the dorsal fin-rays.

1992 M. Sosa & S. M. Malcolm Sci. Bks. & Films' Best Bks. for Children 1988–91 v. 100 The reader tours the fish world, encountering fishes familiar (e.g., sharks, and piranhas) and not so familiar (e.g., lampreys and deep sea anglers).

Compounds

anglerfish n. = sense 3.

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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Lophiiformes (anglers) > [noun] > family Lophiidae > lophius piscatorius (angler)

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friar1603

toad-fish1612

catfish1620

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monkfish1666

nass-fish1666

angler1776

pocket-fish1796

kettle-mawa1798

wide-gab1807

anglerfish1854

round robin1880

dragon-

1854 R. Owen Principal Forms Skeleton & Teeth 44 They [sc. the branchiostegal rays] are of great length in the angler-fish (lophius), in which they serve to support a membrane, developed to form a large receptacle on each side of the head of this singular fish.

1902 Westm. Gaz. 28 Jan. 1/3 An enormous specimen of the rare and curious angler-fish (Lophius piscatorius) known as the ‘Fishing Frog’.

2004 Trop. Fish Jan. 60/3 Torpedo rays—like angler fish and megamouth sharks—are not suitable subjects for the home aquarium.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	angler
释义	† anglern.¹ Forms: Middle English angler, late Middle English angulere. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French anglere, piere anglere. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman anglere, angulere (in Anglo-Norman piere anglere, pere angulere cornerstone (late 13th cent. or earlier; compare Old French piere angler , piere anglere , pierre angler , Middle French, French pierre angulaire cornerstone (1190 in Old French; late 14th cent. in figurative sense ‘foundation of the Church’)) < pere , piere stone (see pier n.²) + anglere , angulere , feminine of angler , anguler angular adj., after classical Latin lapis angulāris). Compare Old Occitan anglar cornerstone, also piece of rock (c1300 or earlier).Old French angler , anglier (noun) is apparently attested only in the senses ‘remote corner’ and ‘corner of a chessboard’ (both 13th cent.); use as noun does not seem to be attested in Anglo-Norman. With the figurative use compare corner-stone n. 1b. Obsolete. A cornerstone; a quoin. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > disposition of stones or bricks > [noun] > specific stone or brick hirne-stonec1000 parpen1252 coin1350 coin-stone1350 angler1365 parpal1369 corner-stonea1382 cunye1387 tuss1412 quoin1532 table stone1554 quoining1562 copestone1567 ground-stone1567 lock bandc1582 quinyie1588 perpender1611 whelmer1618 parpen stone1633 capstone1665 headera1684 through1683 quoin-stone1688 stretcher1693 closer1700 bed-stone1723 coping-brick1725 girder1726 footstone1728 heading brick1731 bossage1736 lewis-hole1740 shoulder1744 headstone1745 pawl1753 tail-bond1776 coping-stone1778 slocking-stone1778 throughband1794 through-stone1797 stretching-bond1805 core1823 keystone1823 tail-binder1828 stretching-stone1833 header brick1841 coign1843 pawl-stone1844 bay-stone1845 bonder1845 pillar-stone1854 bond-piece1862 stretcher-brick1867 toothing-stone1875 bond-stone1879 pierpoint1891 jumper1904 tush1905 padstone1944 1365 in Salzman Building in Eng. 105 Anglers and scunchons. 1442 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 386 (MED) xij coynes, iiij skouchons anglers and viij Square Anglers, to the said first legement table and this seuerant table. a1500 Mirror Salv. (Beeleigh) 114 The stone whilk the biggers reproved in the heved is made angulere... In gods temple has this angulere two wallis iognt sittingly. Crist was..Angulere of alle holy kirke in his gloriouse Resurectionne. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2021). anglern.² Brit. /ˈaŋɡlə/, U.S. /ˈæŋɡlər/ Forms: see angle v.² and -er suffix¹; also late Middle English angleer. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: angle v.², -er suffix¹. Etymology: < angle v.² + -er suffix¹. Compare angling n.¹, angle-rod n.Compare the following substantially earlier instance of Angeler as a surname, although it is not clear whether this shows the same word:1306 Patent Roll, 35 Edward I (P.R.O.: C 66/128) m. 45^v Bartholomei Angeler. 1. A person who fishes with a rod and line.ground, match, roach-, sea-angler, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fisher > [noun] > angler anglerc1450 piscator1674 piscatorian1694 Waltonian1832 rodsman1837 rod1848 rodman1865 rodster1867 piscatorialist1881 sport fisher1902 sport fisherman1915 sportsfisherman1928 c1450 Treat. Fysshynge wyth Angle (1883) 4 (MED) But the angleer may haue no colde ne no disese. a1500 Piers of Fulham (James) in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1866) II. 4 (MED) Berdes byn made al day full feele wyth anglers. 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Hamiota, uel Hamota, an angler or fyssher with an angel or hoke. 1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. iv. v. 40 Seest thou the wary Angler trayle along, His feeble line. 1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler i. 8 The Primitive Christians..were (as most Anglers are) quiet men, and followed peace. View more context for this quotation 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xvi. 80/1 This is by some termed a cod fish hooke; but by Fishers and Anglers it is termed a Snapper, being made with a loop at the top. 1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 169 I play'd with this Lover, as an Angler does with a Trout. 1787 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling (ed. 2) 130 The higher an angler goes up the Thames,..the more sport, and the greater variety of fish he will meet with. 1829 S. Glover Hist. County of Derby I. 177 The following..are well known to the expert angler; viz. barm fly, black fly,..knob fly. 1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling iii. 63 When the angler essays his skill upon the wily old veterans of the pond. 1916 Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) 21 Dec. 6/7 Piscatorious Jones, the enthusiastic angler, had been out for a day's fishing. 1953 M. Sprague Money Mountain (1979) iv. 37 [He] asked Bob about fishing in the district and was delighted to discover that Bob was an avid angler like himself. 2002 Daily Tel. 18 Apr. 10/4 An angler described yesterday how he struggled for two hours to land a giant porbeagle shark off Cornwall. 2. figurative and in extended use. a. slang (originally cant). A thief who uses a hook attached to a long rod to steal from otherwise inaccessible places. Also (occasionally): a pickpocket. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > [noun] > who uses a hook angler1567 hooker1567 curber1591 1567 T. Harman Caueat for Commen Cursetors (new ed.) sig. Biiii^v These hokers or Angglears be peryllous and most wicked knaues. 1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. H4 Noble Lord warden of the Wenches & Anglers [i.e. the devil]. 1612 T. Dekker O per se O sig. N4^v Hee is an Angler for Duds, who hath a Ferme in the Nab of his Filch. 1673 R. Head Canting Acad. 68 Anglers are so called, because they have a Rod or Stick with an Iron hook at the end of it, with which they Angle in the night at Windows or any other place in which they cannot convey their hand. 1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth III. 126 'Mongst Merchant-Men, there's not one in ten, But what is a cunning Angler. 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Anglers, pilferers, or petty thieves, who with a stick having a hook at the end, steal goods out of shop windows, grates, &c. c1819 T. Moore in J. S. Farmer Musa Pedestris (1896) 83 There's not, for picking, to be had, A lad so light and larky, The cleanest angler on the pad. 1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang 4 Anglers, thieves who with a hook at the end of a mop~stick drag to them the ends of cloth which may lie exposed, and so pull out entire pieces. 1903 S. Clapin New Dict. Amer. 19 Angler, in thieves' slang, a street prowler, generally belonging to a gang of petty thieves, and who is always on the lookout for opportunities to commit small larcenies. 1999 Rev. Eng. Stud. 50 522 An ‘angler’ or ‘hooker’ being a rogue armed with a long staff, in which is inserted an iron hook or angle. b. More generally: a person who seeks to obtain or ‘angles’ for something (cf. angle v.² 2). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [noun] > contrivance or machination > one who Machiavellist1565 Machiavellian1566 Machiavel1571 designer1598 stratagemitor1602 stratagematist1609 angler1622 artist1648 intriguer1667 volpone1672 finesser1773 manoeuvrera1805 intriguist1830 schemer1846 Machiavelli1849 1622 J. Hayward Davids Teares 99 One hooke sufficieth to take the fish; one snare to fetter the soule: But the Deuill is a most cunning angler, a verie expert fowler. 1625 J. Stradling Divine Poems 9 That old-Angler-for-mens-soules, some wynnes With sweetned baytes, and some with subtle gynnes. 1810 J. Porter Sc. Chiefs V. iv. 89 This arch-hypocrite, this angler for women's hearts. 1841 Gentleman's Mag. Mar. 263/1 If our friend was so expert an angler for the secrets of others, never was there a better tactician in his own affairs. 1916 W. Wilson Let. 5 Aug. in Polit. Sci. Q. (1980) 95 662 If I should change my personal attitude now I should seem to the country like nothing better than an angler for votes. 1962 A. Valentine Ld. George Germain iv. 37 Bubb Dodington, later Lord Melville, an angler for social and political influence through charming little services to the right lords and ladies. 3. Originally: a bottom-dwelling fish of European seas, Lophius piscatorius (family Lophiidae), with a large, flattened head and a wide mouth set with long, inward-pointing teeth, which attracts prey using a wormlike lure attached to the head by a slender, mobile filament; (also) a similar fish, L. americanus, of the east coast of North America. In later use also: any of numerous fishes of the order Lophiiformes (which includes the family Lophiidae) that attract prey in this way. Cf. anglerfish n. at Compounds.The order comprises several families of fishes, both pelagic and benthic, including those known as devilfish, frogfish, goosefish, and monkfish. The filament bearing the lure is a modified spine of the dorsal fin. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Lophiiformes (anglers) > [noun] > member of angler1776 pediculate1880 the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Lophiiformes (anglers) > [noun] > family Lophiidae > lophius piscatorius (angler) frogfish1598 frog1601 sea-fisher1601 sea-frog1601 friar1603 toad-fish1612 catfish1620 sea-angler1653 devil fish1666 monkfish1666 nass-fish1666 angler1776 pocket-fish1796 kettle-mawa1798 wide-gab1807 anglerfish1854 round robin1880 dragon- 1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler i. 22 For this reason some have called this fish the Sea-Angler. View more context for this quotation] 1776 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, octavo) III. iv. 122 I..have changed the old name of Fishing Frog for the more simple one of Angler. a1798 T. Pennant Journey London to Isle of Wight (1801) II. 74 The common angler..from the vast width of its mouth, it is called here the Kettle-maw. 1845 P. H. Gosse Ocean (1849) vii. 342 The Toad-fishes, or Anglers (Antennarius), whose pectoral and ventral fins have much of the form and also the functions of the feet of a quadruped. 1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling i. 1 The Angler or Fishing-frog..has..a rod, line, and bait appended to its nose. 1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 173 Marbled Angler, Pterophryne histrio. 1913 C. Pettman Africanderisms 360 Lophius upsicephalus, known at East London as the devil-fish or angler. 1930 Biol. Bull. 58 221 The goosefish..is one of the anglers and attracts its prey by a lure on one of the dorsal fin-rays. 1992 M. Sosa & S. M. Malcolm Sci. Bks. & Films' Best Bks. for Children 1988–91 v. 100 The reader tours the fish world, encountering fishes familiar (e.g., sharks, and piranhas) and not so familiar (e.g., lampreys and deep sea anglers). Compounds anglerfish n. = sense 3. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Lophiiformes (anglers) > [noun] > family Lophiidae > lophius piscatorius (angler) frogfish1598 frog1601 sea-fisher1601 sea-frog1601 friar1603 toad-fish1612 catfish1620 sea-angler1653 devil fish1666 monkfish1666 nass-fish1666 angler1776 pocket-fish1796 kettle-mawa1798 wide-gab1807 anglerfish1854 round robin1880 dragon- 1854 R. Owen Principal Forms Skeleton & Teeth 44 They [sc. the branchiostegal rays] are of great length in the angler-fish (lophius), in which they serve to support a membrane, developed to form a large receptacle on each side of the head of this singular fish. 1902 Westm. Gaz. 28 Jan. 1/3 An enormous specimen of the rare and curious angler-fish (Lophius piscatorius) known as the ‘Fishing Frog’. 2004 Trop. Fish Jan. 60/3 Torpedo rays—like angler fish and megamouth sharks—are not suitable subjects for the home aquarium. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). † anglern.³ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: angle n.², -er suffix¹. Etymology: < angle n.² + -er suffix¹. Obsolete. rare. A person who occupies an angle (angle n.² 1a). ΚΠ 1726 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius (ed. 2) App. 295 To desert one place, which he then enjoy'd for life, and the well-grounded expectation of another, in order to become a precarious angler in your hall [sc. Hart Hall, Oxford, where it had been proposed to require tutors to lodge in rooms at the corners of the main quadrangle]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.¹1365n.²c1450n.³1726
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