What does trawl mean?

Definitions for trawl
trɔltrawl

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. trawl, trawl line, spiller, setline, trotlinenoun

    a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys)

  2. trawl, dragnet, trawl netverb

    a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths

  3. trawlverb

    fish with trawlers

Wiktionary

  1. trawlnoun

    A net or dragnet used for trawling.

  2. trawlnoun

    A long fishing line having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it; a setline.

  3. trawlverb

    To take fish, or other marine animals, with a trawl.

  4. trawlverb

    To fish from a slow moving boat.

  5. trawlverb

    To make an exhaustive search for something within a defined area.

  6. Etymology: From Dutch traghel

Wikipedia

  1. trawl

    Trawling is a method of fishing that involves pulling a fishing net through the water behind one or more boats. The net used for trawling is called a trawl. This principle requires netting bags which are towed through water to catch different species of fishes or sometimes targeted species. Trawls are often called towed gear or dragged gear. The boats that are used for trawling are called trawlers or draggers. Trawlers vary in size from small open boats with as little as 30 hp (22 kW) engines to large factory trawlers with over 10,000 hp (7.5 MW). Trawling can be carried out by one trawler or by two trawlers fishing cooperatively (pair trawling). Trawling can be contrasted with trolling. While trawling involves a net and is typically done for commercial usage, trolling instead involves a reed, rod and a bait or a lure and is typically done for recreational purposes. Trawling is also commonly used as a scientific sampling, or survey, method.

ChatGPT

  1. trawl

    Trawl refers to a method of fishing that involves pulling a large fishing net (trawl net) through the water behind one or more boats. It can also refer to a systematic search for something or the act of examining or going through a large amount, typically to gather information.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Trawlverb

    to take fish, or other marine animals, with a trawl

  2. Trawlnoun

    a fishing line, often extending a mile or more, having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it. It is used for catching cod, halibut, etc.; a boulter

  3. Trawlnoun

    a large bag net attached to a beam with iron frames at its ends, and dragged at the bottom of the sea, -- used in fishing, and in gathering forms of marine life from the sea bottom

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Trawl

    trawl, v.i. to fish by dragging a trawl along the bottom.—v.t. to drag, to take with a trawl.—n. a wide-mouthed bag-net for trawling: a long line buoyed upon water, with baited hooks at intervals.—ns. Traw′ler, one who, or that which, trawls: a vessel engaged in trawling—a method adopted in deep-sea fishing; Traw′ling. [O. Fr. trauler, also troller, to go hither and thither.]

The New Hacker's Dictionary

  1. trawl

    To sift through large volumes of data (e.g., Usenet postings, FTP archives, or the Jargon File) looking for something of interest.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. trawl

    A strong net or bag dragged along the bottom of fishing-banks, by means of a rope, a beam, and a pair of iron trawl-heads.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of trawl in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of trawl in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of trawl in a Sentence

  1. Laurence Rees:

    Over the years we've developed a large number of contacts, particularly through the archives in the East, which enabled us to approach these people, it's incredibly labor intensive and incredibly expensive. In order to find one perpetrator, one person who pulls the trigger and shoots people, researchers have to go through the original SS records and trawl through thousands and thousands of names. They've got to compare them against trial records. They've often got to go to the Russian archives to see whether any of these people were prosecuted. Then they've got to go through phone books in Germany. They've got to try and trace relatives and so on….

  2. Juan Mayorga:

    It has made a tremendous impact on the world's oceans, for each kilogram of shrimp, you could get up to 25 kilograms of incidental catch... There's no such thing as a selective bottom trawl.

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Translations for trawl

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  • passer au peigne fin, chaluterFrench
  • pescare con rete a strascicoItalian

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