Obs. rare–1. [f. ANGLE sb.2 + -ER1.] One who occupies an angle.
1726. Amherst, Terræ Filius, App. 295. To desert one place, which he then enjoy’d for life, and the well-grounded expectation of another, in order to become a precarious angler in your hall. [Dr. Richard Newton, principal of Hart Hall, Oxford, 1710–53, incorporated in 1740 as Hertford College, among his rules for its reform, prescribed, ‘One tutor is to lodge in the middle room of the middle staircase in each angle of the College court.’]
