anglerod
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Etymology edit
Possibly a calque of German Angelrute or calque of Dutch hengelroede; equivalent to angle (“to fish”) + rod.
Noun edit
anglerod (plural anglerods)
- (rare) fishing rod
- 1867, Clarence Hopper, A Descriptive Account of a Series of Churchwardens' Presentments, page 29:
- Remission in favor of William Davis, (signed, Thomas Wilson, vicar,) his fault being only for using his angle-rod on the Sabbath.
- 1898, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra:
- Or they sit all day at swamps with anglerods, and on that account think themselves PROFOUND; but whoever fisheth where there are no fish, I do not even call him superficial!