trawl

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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
A net used for trawling
a boulter
fish with trawlers
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 Her private secretary has carefully trawled the West End for a suitable show
{i} fishing net dragged along the sea bottom
a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys)
{f} fish with a fishing net dragged along the sea bottom
a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys) fish with trawlers
A large bag net attached to a beam with iron frames at its ends, and dragged at the bottom of the sea, used in fishing, and in gathering forms of marine life from the sea bottom
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 We came upon a fishing boat trawling for Dover sole
It is used for catching cod, halibut, etc
A fishing line, often extending a mile or more, having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it
a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths
trawl net
A large tapered fishing net that is towed along the sea bottom
trawl net
a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths
trawled
past of trawl
trawling
{i} netting, net-like material
trawling
present participle of trawl
trawls
third-person singular of trawl
trawl