[f. FISHING vbl. sb.] A long slender tapering rod to which a line is attached for angling. Formerly called also ANGLE-ROD.
1552. Huloet, Fishing rodde, calamus.
1591. Percivall, Sp. Dict., Veleta, the toppe of a fishing rodde, tragula.
1706. Farquhar, Recruiting Officer, IV. ii. You have something like a fishing-rod there, indeed.
1861. W. F. Collier, Hist. Eng. Lit., 175. Izaak Walton, who wielded pen and fishing-rod with equal love and skill, was born at Stafford in 1593.
