Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A trawl net.
- noun An act of trawling, as for fish.
- noun An act of searching for or examining something.
- intransitive verb To catch (fish) with a trawl.
- intransitive verb To fish (an area) with a trawl.
- intransitive verb To search (an area) or go to (different places) in search of something.
- intransitive verb To make an examination of something.
- intransitive verb To fish with a trawl.
- intransitive verb To troll.
- intransitive verb To search for or try to acquire something.
- intransitive verb To make an examination of something.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To drag, as a trawlnet.
- To catch or take with a trawl-net.
- To use a trawl-line or trawl-net; fish with a trawl.
- noun A buoyed line, often of great length, to which short lines with baited hooks are attached at suitable intervals; a trawl-line.
- noun A large bag-net, with a wide mouth held open by a frame or other contrivance, and often having net wings on each side of the mouth, designed to be dragged along the bottom by a boat.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun U. S. & Canada A fishing line, often extending a mile or more, having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it. It is used for catching cod, halibut, etc.; a boulter.
- noun A large bag net attached to a beam with iron frames at its ends, and dragged at the bottom of the sea, -- used in fishing, and in gathering forms of marine life from the sea bottom.
- intransitive verb To take fish, or other marine animals, with a trawl.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A long
fishing line having many short lines bearinghooks attached to it; a setline. - verb To take fish, or other marine animals, with a trawl.
- verb To
fish from a slow movingboat . - verb To make an
exhaustive search for something within adefined area .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys)
- noun a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths
- verb fish with trawlers
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"She has a great net like a big night-cap stretched over on a spar, which we call a trawl-beam, and this is lowered down, and as the boat sails it is dragged along the bottom, and catches soles, and turbot, and plaice and sometimes john-dory, and gurnet, and brill.
Menhardoc George Manville Fenn 1870
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This beam is supported by two upright iron frames, three feet in height, known as the trawl heads, or irons; the lower being flattened, to rest on the ground.
A Yacht Voyage Round England William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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A trawl is a net with a deep bag fastened to a long beam, which long beam has a three-cornered iron at each end.
Ben Hadden or, Do Right Whatever Comes Of It William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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Trawlers, i.e. craft that fish with a "trawl" net for flat fish, haddocks, etc., etc., are managed differently.
Edward FitzGerald and "Posh" "Herring Merchants" James Blyth
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Sept. 23, 2008 - Following the success of strategies to protect seabirds from longline fishing activities, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has today urged regions using other industrial fishing techniques, such as trawl nets and gillnets, to implement safeguards in areas where seabirds are at greatest risk.
YubaNet.com 2008
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The squid, weighing in at 103 pounds (46.7 kg), was caught July 30 in a trawl net more than 1,500 feet underwater as it was pulled by a research vessel.
Lance Mannion: 2009
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brtom commented on the word trawl
I do not
trawl the web,
rather step
delicately, as if
in a field of
glass.
Mark Young, in As/Is
December 21, 2006
mialuthien commented on the word trawl
Also, trawling through dictionaries, trawling through archives, and so on.
July 20, 2008