angler
/ˈæŋ.ɡlɚ/ nom C1En français : pêcheur à la ligne
- A person who fishes with a hook and line. · A throng of anglers lined the trout stream on opening day of trout season.
- An anglerfish, Lophius piscatorius. · The angler lured a smaller fish into reach with the appendage on its head.
- Someone who tries to work an angle; a person who schemes or has an ulterior motive.
Pluriel anglers
Dans la bibliothèque
But one fine day I learned that the mover of this telegraph was only a poor wretch, hired for twelve hundred francs a year, and employed all day, not in studying the heavens like an astronomer, or in gazing on the water like an angler, or even in enjoying the privilege of observing the country around him, but all his monotonous life was passed in watching his white-bellied, black-clawed fellow insect, four or five leagues distant from him.
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