trawl

English

trawling

Etymology

16th century, borrowed from Dutch tragelen (“to pull with a towline, trawl”), from Middle Dutch traghelen, from traghel (“dragnet”) (presumably from Latin tragula (“dragnet”)), and as such root-cognate with English drag.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tɹɔːl/

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

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.

Derived terms

• trawlwire

Descendants

• → Portuguese: trol
• → Russian: трал (tral)

Verb

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

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

Related terms

• troll

Descendants

• → Faroese: trol

Translations

To fish with a trawl

• Bulgarian: траля (tralja)
• Finnish: troolata (fi)
• French: chaluter (fr)
• Indonesian: memukat (id), menjaring (id)
• Italian: sciabicare
• Russian: тра́лить (ru) impf (trálitʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: kočariti (sh)
• Swedish: tråla (sv)
• Tagalog: mamalakaya

To make an exhaustive search within a defined area

• French: passer au peigne fin (fr)
• Russian: прочёсывать (ru) impf (pročósyvatʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: pročešljati (sh)

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• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} troli
• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} מכמורת‎ (he) (1)
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} rastrear (es)