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   Trawl

   /trôl/

   

   verb

   • 1. fish with a trawl net or seine: "the boats trawled for flounder"
   • ▪ catch with a trawl net.
   • ▪ sift through as part of a search: "they trawled through twenty-five-year-old confidential files"
   • ▪ drag or trail (something) through water or other liquid: "she trawled a toe to test the temperature"

   noun

   • 1. an act of fishing with a trawl net: "they had caught two trout on the lazy trawl"
   • ▪ a large wide-mouthed fishing net dragged by a vessel along the bottom or in the midwater of the sea or a lake.
   • 2. an act of sifting through something as part of a search: "a constant trawl for information"
   • 3. another term for longline North American

   Word Origin mid 16th century (as a verb): probably from Middle Dutch traghelen ‘to drag’ (related to traghel ‘dragnet’), perhaps from Latin tragula ‘dragnet’.

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   What does trawl mean?

   • 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 files for similar cases. The Oxford Learner’s Thesaurus explains the difference between groups of similar words.

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   What does trawl line mean?

   • Also called trawl line. a buoyed line used in sea fishing, having numerous short lines with baited hooks attached at intervals. to fish with a net that drags along the sea bottom to catch the fish living there. to fish with a trawl line. to troll. to catch with a trawl net or a trawl line. to drag (a trawl net). to troll.

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   What does it mean to trawl through a large number of similar things?

   • If you trawl through a large number of similar things, you search through them looking for something that you want or something that is suitable for a particular purpose . A team of officers is trawling through the records of thousands of petty thieves. [VERB + through] Her private secretary has carefully trawled the West End for a suitable show.

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   Why do fishermen trawl for fish?

   • When fishermen trawl for fish, they pull a wide net behind their ship in order to catch fish. They had seen him trawling and therefore knew that there were fish. She would walk on to the beach and watch the night fishermen trawl the shallow waters. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers 1. 2. US 3.

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   Trawl definition, a strong fishing net for dragging along the sea bottom. See more.

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   19 hours ago · trawl in American English. (trɔl) noun. 1. Also called: trawl net. a strong fishing net for dragging along the sea bottom. 2. Also called: trawl line. a buoyed line used in sea fishing, having numerous short lines with baited hooks attached at intervals.

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   Define trawl. trawl synonyms, trawl pronunciation, trawl translation, English dictionary definition of trawl. n. 1. A trawl net. 2. See setline. 3. a. An act of trawling, as for fish. b. An act of searching for or examining something: A trawl of local records...

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   6 days ago · trawl (third-person singular simple present trawls, present participle trawling, simple past and past participle trawled) ( transitive, intransitive) To take (fish or other marine animals) with a trawl. ( intransitive) To fish from a slow-moving boat. ( intransitive) To make an exhaustive search for something within a defined area.