fishing tackle

British

noun

all the equipment, such as rods, lines, bait, etc, used in angling

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Fishing tackle, a cupping apparatus, a set of engineering instruments, half a dozen ears of extra fine seed corn, medicine scales, and a huge cotton stock filled the rest of the bookcase.

From Plantation Sketches by Devereux, Margaret

Fishing tackle can be purchased or rented from several stores in the village of Estes Park.

From Rocky Mountain [Colorado] National Park by United States. Dept. of the Interior

Fishing tackle of the Cave-men was very crude.

From The Later Cave-Men by Brown, Howard V.

Fishing tackle, tents, pocket-flashes, puttees, ponchos, chocolate, quirts, slickers, matches, medicine-case, sweaters, cooking utensils, blankets.

From Gigolo by Ferber, Edna

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