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

A quarrel. [R.] Whitlock.

Producing discordant sounds. "A jangling noise." Milton.

In a tangling manner.

Dangling. Browning.

(Angling) An artificial fly with brown mottled wings, body of peacock harl, and black legs.

Characterized by wrangling; scolding. [R.] Fielding.

strength, force, security, or efficiency; as, to arm the hit of a sword; to arm a hook in angling.

Altercation; wrangling.

A knot of worms, or of rags, on a string, used in angling, as for eels; formerly, a worm suitable for bait. Or yellow bobs, turned up before the plow, Are chiefest baits, with cork and lead enow. Lauson.

leather cord; -- used by the Gauchos of South America, and others, for hurling at and entangling an animal.

A string used by the Turks for strangling offenders. Bowstring bridge, a bridge formed of an arch of timber or iron, often braced, the thrust of which is resisted by a tie forming a chord of the arch. -- Bowstring girder, an arched beam strengthened by a tie connecting its two ends. -- Bowstring hemp (Bot.), the tena…

An instrument for disentangling and arranging the fibers of cotton, wool, flax, etc.; or for cleaning and smoothing the hair of animals; -- usually consisting of bent wire teeth set closely in rows in a thick piece of leather fastened to a back.

To throw, as a line in angling, esp, with a fly hook.

Tending to catch or insnare; entangling; -- usually used fig.; as, a catchy question.

Disputing or wrangling. [Obs.] -- n.

A loose end; a dangling shred. Daglocks, clotted locks hanging in dags or jags at a sheep's tail. Wedgwood.

swing, as something suspended loosely; as, to dangle the feet. And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume. Sir W. Scott.

To dib or dip frequently, as in angling. Walton.

In a dangling manner.