Obs. [f. ANGLE sb.1, when that word (orig. = hook) had been extended to the line, or rod and line.] A fish-hook. Also fig.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Compl. Mars, 238. And lyke a fissher … Bateth hys angle-hoke [v.r. angil hooke, anglise hewkis] with summe plesaunce.
1382. Wyclif, Isa. xix. 8. Fissheres, and alle into the flod puttende the angil hoc.
c. 1449. Pol. Poems (1859), II. 222. The Fisshere hathe lost his hangulhooke.
1604. Jerilo, Fr. Bacon’s Proph., 231, in E. P. P., IV. 276. Then love went not by lookes … Nor words were Angle-hookes.
