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- DictionaryTrawl/trôl/
verb
- 1. fish with a trawl net or seine: "the boats trawled for flounder"
noun
- 1. an act of fishing with a trawl net: "they had caught two trout on the lazy trawl"
- 2. an act of sifting through something as part of a search: "a constant trawl for information"
trawl: [verb] to fish with a trawl. to make a search as if by trawling.
TRAWL definition: 1. to pull a large, cone-shaped net through the sea at a deep level behind a special boat in order…. Learn more.
Bottom trawling is trawling (towing a trawl, which is a fishing net) along the seafloor. It is also referred to as "dragging". The scientific community divides bottom trawling into benthic trawling and demersal trawling. Benthic trawling is towing a net at the very bottom of the ocean and demersal trawling is towing a net just above the benthic ...
Trawl definition: a strong fishing net for dragging along the sea bottom.. See examples of TRAWL used in a sentence.
TRAWL meaning: 1. to pull a large, cone-shaped net through the sea at a deep level behind a special boat in order…. Learn more.
Trawling can be divided into bottom trawling and midwater trawling, depending on how high the trawl (net) is in the water column.Bottom trawling is towing the trawl along (benthic trawling) or close to (demersal trawling) the sea floor. Bottom trawling is an industrial fishing method in which a large net with heavy weights is dragged across the seafloor, scooping up everything in its path.
7 meanings: sea fishing 1. Also called: trawlnet a large net, usually in the shape of a sock or bag, drawn at deep levels.... Click for more definitions.
trawl: 1 n a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys) Synonyms: setline , spiller , trawl line , trotline Type of: fishing line a length of cord to which the leader and float and sinker and hook are attached n a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths Synonyms: ...
[transitive, intransitive] to search through a large amount of information or a large number of people, places, etc. looking for a particular thing or person trawl something (for something/somebody) She trawled the shops for bargains. Major companies trawl the universities for potential graduate trainees. trawl (through something) (for something/somebody) The police are trawling through their ...
Definition of trawl noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
