Angle

Source : Wright, Joseph English Dialect Dictionary

ANGLE, sb.1 Yks. Der. [a·ŋl.]
1. A small hook.
m.Yks.1 A small hook, as a fishing-hook.
2. Comp. Angle-rod (obs.), a fishing-rod.
Der.1
[1. Go to the see and cast in thyne angle, Tindale
Matt. xvii. 27; Gang to ðǣre sǣ and wurp ðīnne angel
ūt, OE. vers. (TINDALE MATT.) OE. angul, cp. ON. öngull, a fishing-hook.
2. He makes a May-fly to a miracle; and furnishes
the whole country with angle-rods, Addison Spect. No.
108; An angle-rod, Pertica Piscatoria, Coles (1679);
Before you undertake your tryal of skil by the angle-rod,
Walton Angler (1653) 170.]

ANGLE, sb.2 Som. Dev. [æ·ŋl.] A worm used in
fishing, an earthworm.
w.Som.1 U buunch u ang·lz wai wús·turd drùe um-z dhu bas bauyt
vur ee·ulz [a bunch of worms with worsted through them is the
best bait for eels]. You be bound vor to gie em [larks and thrushes]
a angle now and then. Dev. ‘Fishing with an angle’ is by more
people understood to be fishing with a worm than what it really
is ─ fishing with a hook, Reports Provinc. (1889) s.Dev. (F.W.C.)
[Prob. for Angle-twitch, q.v.]

Source : Century Dictionary