Trawl - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|trɔːl|
Brit.
|trɔːl|
noun
- a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys)
- a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths (syn: dragnet)
- a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths (syn: dragnet)
verb
- fish with trawlers
Extra examples
The boat trawled far out at sea.
He trawled the Internet looking for Web sites on growing grapes.
She was trawling through old letters for information about her family.
I'll have to trawl through all my lecture notes again.
She spent the morning in the library, trawling for information for her project.
Word forms
verb
I/you/we/they: trawl
he/she/it: trawls
present participle: trawling
past tense: trawled
past participle: trawled
I/you/we/they: trawl
he/she/it: trawls
present participle: trawling
past tense: trawled
past participle: trawled
noun
singular: trawl
plural: trawls
singular: trawl
plural: trawls
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