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Verb
/trôl/,
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trawled, past tense; trawls, 3rd person singular present; trawling, present participle; trawled, past participle;
  1. Fish with a trawl net or seine
    • - the boats trawled for flounder
    • - restrictions on excessive trawling were urgently needed
  2. Catch with a trawl net

  3. Sift through as part of a search
    • - they trawled through twenty-five-year-old confidential files
    • - he trawled his memory and remembered locking the door
  4. 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
  2. An act of sifting through something as part of a search
    • - we did a trawl of supermarkets and health-food stores
    • - a constant trawl for information
  3. A large wide-mouthed fishing net dragged by a vessel along the bottom or in the midwater of the sea or a lake

  1. a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys)
  2. fish with trawlers
  3. a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths
  4. Trawling is a method of fishing that involves pulling a large fishing net through the water behind one or more boats. The net that is used for trawling is called a trawl.
  5. A net used for trawling; A long fishing line having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it; a setline; To take fish, or other marine animals, with a trawl; To fish from a slow moving boat; To make an exhaustive search for something within a defined area
  6. (Trawling) Also known as dredging, the process of dragging huge, heavy nets over the sea floor, scooping up everything in their path.
  7. (Trawling) A harvesting method that involves dragging an open-mouthed net behind the boat. Many types of bottom-dwelling fish are caught when trawling.
  8. (Trawling) Dragging a large net along the bottom of a body of water to collect organisms, usually for commercial fishing or scientific research.
  9. (Trawling) Fishing methods where a single vessel or pair of vessels tow a large netting bag (trawl net).
  10. (Trawling) The use of large nets that are dragged through some portion of the water column or along the sea floor to capture marine organisms. Bottom trawls scrape the ocean bottom to harvest marine organisms. ...
  11. A cone or funnel-shaped net that is towed through the water by one or more vessels.
  12. Fishing gear: cone-shaped net towed in the water by a boat called a "trawler". Bottom trawls are towed along the ocean floor to catch species such as groundfish. Mid-water trawls are towed within the water column.
  13. A string of traps connected with line and layed with a buoy at each end. Eight- and ten-trap trawls are common.
  14. A piece of equipment used by scientists to collect the larger animals living on the sea bed, such as fish, octopuses, Sea Mice and Whelks. These are often towed for long distances. Trawls are also used by fishermen
  15. a recovery line trailing from a moving craft or vessel, which enables divers or swimmers to be extracted from a body of water by attaching themselves onto the line while the craft or vessel continues, without stopping to embark the departing personnel, who are later transferred to their host ...
  16. A wide range of demersal (bottom) or pelagic (mid-water) species of fish are taken by this fishing method which entails one or a pair of vessels towing a large bag-shaped net either along the seafloor or in mid-water.
  17. To fish or catch with a trawling net