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Definition: Fishing Rod |
Fishing RodNoun1. A rod of wood or steel or fiberglass that is used in fishing to extend the fishing line. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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A 'fishing rod\' is a tool used to catch fish, usually for sport. (Sustenance and commercial fishing usually involves nets.) A length of fishing line is threaded along a long, flexible rod or pole; one end terminates in a barbed hook for catching the fish, while most of the rest of the line is wound around a reel at the base of the pole. The pulley-like arrangement of the reel allows the fish to be "reeled in" once caught. The use of a fishing rod is known as angling.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Fishing rod."
Synonym: Fishing RodSynonym: fishing pole (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Fishing Rod |
| English words defined with "fishing rod": fly rod ♦ Pirn ♦ reel ♦ spinning rod. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "fishing rod": FISHING-ROD ASSEMBLER, fishing-rod trimmer ♦ guide winder, GUIDE-BASE WINDER, MACHINE. (references) |
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Screenplays | No, I mean, you know, with a fishing rod. (Help!; writing credit: Marc Behm; Charles Wood) | |
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| Language | Translations for "fishing rod"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | hengel (fishing). (various references) | |
Albanian | grep (chela, click, fish rod, hook, key, needle, tenterhook, tenterhooks). (various references) | |
Arabic | قصبة الصيد, عصا الصيد, صنارة الصيد سمك. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | рибарски прът. (various references) | |
Chinese | 魚竿 . (various references) | |
Czech | rybářský prut (fish rod). (various references) | |
Danish | medestang. (various references) | |
Dutch | hengel (handline). (various references) | |
Esperanto | fiŝvergo, hokfiŝilo. (various references) | |
Finnish | ongenvapa. (various references) | |
French | canne pêche, canne. (various references) | |
Frisian | fiskerstôk, fiskersstôk, angelstôk, angel (prickle, sting). (various references) | |
German | Angelrute. (various references) | |
Hebrew | ק " "חכ", חכ" (fishhook). (various references) | |
Hungarian | horgászbot (fish rod, pole, rod, trolling-rod). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pancing (fishhook). (various references) | |
Italian | canna da pesca, canna (barrel, cane, canna, crossbar, funnel, pipe, Reed, rod, stick). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 釣竿 , 釣り竿 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | つりざお. (various references) | |
Manx | slat eeastee. (various references) | |
Norwegian | fiskestang. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ishingfay odray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cana (cane, halm, haulm, reed, stalk). (various references) | |
Romanian | undiţã (angle, fish hook, hook, line, rod), trestie folositã pentru pescuit. (various references) | |
Russian | удочка (fish rod, rod). (various references) | |
Scottish | slat-iasgaich. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | štap za pecanje (fish rod). (various references) | |
Spanish | caña de pescar, caña (boot, bootleg, cane, glass, leg, marram-grass, noggin, pint, Reed, rod, shaft, shank, shin, stem). (various references) | |
Swedish | metspö (fishing-rod, rod). (various references) | |
Turkish | olta kamışı (fishing pole), olta (angle, fishhook, fishing line, fly-rod). (various references) | |
Welsh | genwair. (various references) | |
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | harundine, harundinem, harundineo, harundineum, harundineus, harundini, harundinis, harundo. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-f-g-h-i-i-n-o-r-s" | |
-3 letters: dishing, dogfish, dronish, firings, fishing, fording, hidings, hoising, hording, horsing, indigos, noirish, origins, ridings, shindig, shoring, signior, signori, sordini. | |
-4 letters: doings, dosing, finish, fiords, firing, frigid, fronds, girons, gonifs, grinds, grison, groins, hiding, hiring, hosing, indigo, indris, iodins, ogrish, origin, rhinos, riding, rising, rosing, siding, signor, siring, soring. | |
-5 letters: dingo, dings, doing, dongs. | |
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