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Trawl
trɔːl
Trawl definitions
verb
trawl
trawled
trawling
trawls
- fish with a trawl net or seine
"the boats trawled for flounder"
- catch with a trawl or seine
"British cod is being replaced by hoki, trawled from great depths off New Zealand"
- drag or trail (something) through water
"she trawled a toe to test the temperature"
- search thoroughly
"the Home Office trawled through twenty-five-year-old confidential files"
noun
trawl
trawls
- an act of fishing with a trawl net or seine
"they had caught two trout on the lazy trawl up-lake"
- a large wide-mouthed fishing net dragged by a boat along the bottom of the sea or a lake
- a long sea-fishing line along which are tied buoys supporting baited hooks on short lines
- a thorough search
"a constant trawl for information"