trowl

English

Verb

trowl (third-person singular simple present trowls, present participle trowling, simple past and past participle trowled)

1. Archaic form of troll. (entice fish with bait)
   • December 15 1739, Henry Fielding, The Champion:

     he seems to prefer snapping, to trowling after this fish

References

• “trowl”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.