trawl

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EnglishEdit

trawling

PronunciationEdit

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

EtymologyEdit

16th century, borrowing from Dutch traghelen (“to drage”), traghel (“dragnet”) (presumably from Latin tragula), and as such root-cognate with drag.

NounEdit

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 termsEdit

• trawlwire

VerbEdit

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 termsEdit

• troll

TranslationsEdit

To fish with a trawl

• French: chaluter (fr)
• Indonesian: memukat, menjaring

• Italian: pescare con rete a strascico, sciabicare
• Tagalog: mamalakaya

To make an exhaustive search within a defined area

• French: passer au peigne fin (fr)

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• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} troli
• Hebrew: מכמורת (1)

• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} rastrear (es)