trawl
IPA: trˈɔɫ
noun
- A net or dragnet used for trawling.
- A long fishing line having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it; a setline.
verb
- (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.
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Examples of "trawl" in Sentences
- I'll have a bit of a trawl myself.
- A group of us will do a trawl soon.
- I'll have a trawl through it later.
- It is a pain to trawl the AIV history.
- In this case, scraper trawls are used.
- A trawl of OSGB turns up no such list.
- They are known to attack trawl catches.
- Seems to simply be a trawl through the novel.
- Each side can deploy a twin trawl or a single otter trawl.
- Outrigger trawlers use outriggers, or booms, to tow the trawl.