arrastão
Portuguese edit
Etymology 1 edit
From arrastar (“to trawl; to drag”) + -ão, from rasto (“dragnet”).
Pronunciation edit
Hyphenation: ar‧ras‧tão
Noun edit
arrastão m (plural arrastões)
- (fishing) trawling (fishing technique in which a net is dragged)
- Synonym: pesca de arrasto
- (fishing) trawler (fishing boat that uses a trawl net or dragnet)
- (fishing) dragnet (net dragged across the bottom of a body of water)
- the act of violently dragging something
- Synonyms: arrastamento, arraste, arrasto, puxão
- a form of crime, occurring in Brazil, in which a group of criminals surround a location (usually a beach or tunnel) and steal every object in it
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
arrastão
- (obsolete) Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of arrastam, now a common misspelling.