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Meanings of trawl in anglès
A long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys)
Synonyms
Examples for "spiller"
Examples for "spiller"
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Now another rough blood-spiller becomes the first new release to open in cinemas for over three months.
2
In this life, Comrade Spiller, we must be prepared for every emergency.
3
Are we of this generation worthy descendants of tea spillers and abolitionists?
4
Spiller advanced into the study; the others waited outside, crowding in the doorway.
5
Ms Spiller said the focus was now on prioritising gang and gun-related violence.
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They had caught the ruby-eyed creature on a deep trotline over the Monterey marine canyon.
2
Now I operate a trotline for catfish." Or a mother might boast, "Oh, yes, Oscar passed his college boards.
3
He and Jack liked to string trotlines then in the Coosa, up near the little town of Ohatchee.
4
"I know about lots of trotlines," he said, and laughed.
5
"You know anything about that trotline?" my father asked.
1
The bow pulley in each dory fairly chuckled with delight as the trawl line was pulled over it.
2
Mr. Samuel Wiley, of Gloucester, in September 1893, caught a salmon at sea off Gloucester on a trawl line fished for hake.
3
In December, 1891, a salmon weighing 28 pounds was caught on a cod trawl line set near Halfway Rock, off Salem Harbor, Mass.
4
Mr. Mayo states that these were the first salmon ever taken on trawl lines in that region.
5
Hake are found in the deep water on the W. and SW. in spring, summer, and fall; trawl lines principally are used here.
Usage of trawl in anglès
1
The meshes vary in size according to the part of the trawl.
2
The trawl, formerly not much used here, is now in general use.
3
A quick trawl through college research highlights an amazing diversity of projects.
4
By September, an exhaustive trawl had come up with some CCTV footage.
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I trawl past D's building, peer through the windows into the foyer.
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That dwarfed the 58 NIWA estimated died in trawl or set nets.
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The John Steel Singers Our latest find from another trawl Down Under.
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By-the-bye, how do you pass the time away before hauling the trawl?'
9
And so the great annual trawl for young talent has begun yet again.
10
If you can trawl 100 years of papers in five seconds, why not?
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A trawl through the week's papers does turn up a few possible sightings.
12
A trawl two weeks ago had set the figure at 97.
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Nothing for him there, then; he decided to trawl the inns and workshops.
14
Survey of London, by John Stow A compendious street-by-street trawl through Elizabethan London.
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The reporting involved a trawl of comments on Mumsnet and Twitter.
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The Exodus, fishing for whitefish, had made its fourth trawl of the day.
About this term
Frequent collocations
More collocations
Trawl through the time
Trawl across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Rare
United States of America
Rare