trawl

IPA: trˈɔɫ

A net or dragnet used for trawling.
A long fishing line having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it; a setline.

(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.

Examples of "trawl" in Sentences

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Trawlers, i.e. craft that fish with a "trawl" net for flat fish, haddocks, etc., etc., are managed differently.
A trawl is a net with a deep bag fastened to a long beam, which long beam has a three-cornered iron at each end.
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The squid, weighing in at 103 pounds (46.7 kg), was caught July 30 in a trawl net more than 1,500 feet underwater as it was pulled by a research vessel.
This beam is supported by two upright iron frames, three feet in height, known as the trawl heads, or irons; the lower being flattened, to rest on the ground.
"She has a great net like a big night-cap stretched over on a spar, which we call a trawl-beam, and this is lowered down, and as the boat sails it is dragged along the bottom, and catches soles, and turbot, and plaice and sometimes john-dory, and gurnet, and brill.
Sept. 23, 2008 - Following the success of strategies to protect seabirds from longline fishing activities, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has today urged regions using other industrial fishing techniques, such as trawl nets and gillnets, to implement safeguards in areas where seabirds are at greatest risk.