trawl

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /tɹɔːl/
• (US) IPA: /tɹɑl/, /tɹɔl/
• Rhymes: -ɔːl
• Homophone: troll (some dialects)

Etymology

From Dutch traghel

Noun

trawl (plural trawls)

1. A net or dragnet used for trawling. [from the 16th c.]
2. A long fishing line having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it; a setline.

Verb

trawl (third-person singular simple present trawls, present participle trawling, simple past and past participle trawled)

1. To take fish, or other marine animals, with a trawl.
2. To fish from a slow moving boat.
3. To make an exhaustive search for something within a defined area.

Related terms

• troll

Translations

To fish with a trawl

• French: chaluter (fr)

To make an exhaustive search within a defined area

• French: passer au peigne fin (fr)

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Translations to be checked

• Esperanto: troli
• Hebrew: מכמורת (1)

• Spanish: rastrear (es)