spinning rod
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Noun
spinning rod (plural spinning rods)
- (fishing) A long, flexible fishing rod with guide rings and a mounting bracket for a spinning reel.
- An avid angler, she kept a collapsible spinning rod in the back of her truck in case she happened to drive past a likely-looking stream.
- 1840, The New Sporting Magazine, Volume 18 ("The Fly-fisher's Text Book. Or, the Science and Practice of Fly-fishing for Salmon, Trout, &c."), page 171:
- Hook, even with snap tackle and a spinning rod, a jack of 8 or 9 lb.,--he gives a shake or two, but still you may go on, wind, wind, till he is on shore
- 1859, Isaak Walton & Charles Cotton, The Complete Angler, Routledge, Warnes and Routledge, page 236:
- The pieces of the spinning-rod should be moderately stout--something between those of the trolling-rod and the larger trout fly-rod--and they should be ringed with middle-sized upright rings, and should be tolerably elastic.