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Rod-men

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Anglers, who use line and fishing-rod.

“You will be nearly sure to meet one or two old rod-men sipping their toddy there.”—J. K. Jerome: Three Men in a Boat, chap. xvii.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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