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Etymology

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super- +‎ trawler

Noun

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supertrawler (plural supertrawlers)

  1. (nautical) A very large, industrialised trawler
    • 1997, Mark Kurlansky, Cod, page 209:
      The proposition that foreigners may be depriving British workers of their cod is politically potent. [] This argument, of course, denies the long British history of overfishing and the fact that the dread Spanish supertrawlers, which are now so universally denounced, wre a British invention.