angle
/ˈeɪ̯ŋ.ɡəl/ verb C1- To try to catch fish with a hook and line.
- To attempt to subtly persuade someone to offer a desired thing. · He must be angling for a pay rise.
He/she/it angles · Past angled · Past participle angled · -ing form angling
Verb forms
- Base form
- angle
- He/she/it
- angles
- Past
- angled
- Past participle
- angled
- -ing form
- angling
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Now, I observe, Ames, that there is a small piece of plaster at the angle of Mr.
Prim, right-angled paths neatly bordered with clamshells, intersected it like moist red ribbons and in the beds between old-fashioned flowers ran riot.
It looks very funny, but it is so perfectly balanced a gait that you can fly off from it at any angle you please, and in dealing with snakes this is an advantage.
The ground is very hard, you see, and there are no marks to guide us.” As he spoke two men came down the garden path, from round the angle of the house.
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