ANGLING

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Fishing with a hook and line (and usually a pole)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("angling" is a kind of...):

fishing; sportfishing (the act of someone who fishes as a diversion)

Domain member category:

fish lure; fisherman's lure ((angling) any bright artificial bait consisting of plastic or metal mounted with hooks and trimmed with feathers)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "angling"):

fly-fishing (angling with an artificial fly as a lure)

troll; trolling (angling by drawing a baited line through the water)

-ing form of the verb angle