An avid fisherman, 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: https://books.google.com/books?id=jPw7AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA171&dq=%22spinning+rod%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwihtofHqNzfAhXmQd8KHT2VAX843gIQ6AEIXDAJ#v=onepage&q=%22spinning%20rod%22&f=false
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: https://books.google.com/books?id=Ng1JAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA236&dq=%22spinning+rod%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwit7f6VptzfAhVjQt8KHZ25Bjw46AIQ6AEISTAG#v=onepage&q=%22spinning%20rod%22&f=false
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.

Spinning rod

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Noun