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silver doctor

noun

, Angling.
  1. a type of artificial fly, used chiefly for trout and salmon.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of silver doctor1

First recorded in 1890–95
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Example Sentences

Going to hang the Indian sign on them with a silver doctor and a Jock Scott.

Here is a big Silver Doctor that may do as the water is thick.

Now we will straighten out a leader and choose some flies—a silver doctor and a queen of the water—how would those do?

Try a good big Silver Doctor; these big fellows ought to take it.

I therefore put on a large Silver Doctor, and began steadily fishing down the ash-tree cast.

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