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One who angles.

A quarrelsome person.

One who dangles about or after others, especially after women; a trifler. " Danglers at toilets." Burke.

One that entangles.

An idle talker; a babbler; a prater. Chaucer.

A female prater or babbler.

Jangling. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One who mangles or tears in cutting; one who mutilates any work in doing it.

One who, or that which, spangles.

One who, or that which, strangles. "The very strangler of their amity." Shak.

An angry disputant; one who disputes with heat or peevishness. "Noisy and contentious wranglers." I. Watts.

The honor or position of being a wrangler at the University of Cambridge, England.

The angler.

A earthworm of the genus Lumbricus, frequently used by anglers for bait. See Earthworm.

A clamorous, quarrelsome, noisy fellow; a wrangler. [R] Shak.

One that brawls; wrangler. Common brawler (Law), one who disturbs a neighborhood by brawling (and is therefore indictable at common law as a nuisance). Wharton.

ly with pieces of broken shells, gravel, bits of wood, etc. They are a favorite bait with anglers. Called also caddice worm, or caddis worm. Caddice fly (Zoöl.), a species of trichopterous insect, whose larva is the caddice.

A professed admirer of a married woman; a dangler about women.

An osier basket, such as anglers use. Sir W. Scott.

The goosefish or angler (Lophius), and other allied fishes. See Angler.