Definition of "angling" [an•gling]

• The act, process, or art of fishing with a hook and line and usually a rod. (noun)

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• "One of the most perplexing things in all of angling is how fish see and respond to color."
• "Instead, my sister would tell me stories about the bear in the ceiling – there was proof of his existence, you could see the crack angling from the doorway to halfway across the room – who would become restless and crash down on us if I kept talking and he heard me."
• "An American book on angling is a novelty, and yet America has "thousands of brooks, creeks, rivers, lakes, bays, and inlets" which "abound in game-fish.""