trawl
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
trawl/trɔːl/
▶verb
- 1 fish or catch with a trawl net or seine.
- 2 search thoroughly.
- 1 an act of trawling.
- 2 (also trawl net) a large wide-mouthed fishing net dragged by a boat along the bottom of the sea or a lake.
- 3 (also trawl line) N. Amer. a long sea-fishing line along which are tied buoys supporting baited hooks on short lines.
– origin C16: prob. from MDu. traghelen ‘to drag’.
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