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Meanings of trawl in English

Portuguese
rasca
Catalan
traïnya
Wikidata

A conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths.

rasca

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

Usage of trawl in English
1
The meshes vary in size according to the part of the trawl.
A Yacht Voyage Round England
2
The trawl, formerly not much used here, is now in general use.
Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine
3
A quick trawl through college research highlights an amazing diversity of projects.
The Irish Times
4
By September, an exhaustive trawl had come up with some CCTV footage.
The Guardian
5
I trawl past D's building, peer through the windows into the foyer.
Cleaving
6
That dwarfed the 58 NIWA estimated died in trawl or set nets.
Radio NZ
7
The John Steel Singers Our latest find from another trawl Down Under.
The Irish Times
8
By-the-bye, how do you pass the time away before hauling the trawl?'
Chatterbox, 1905.
9
And so the great annual trawl for young talent has begun yet again.
The Irish Times
10
If you can trawl 100 years of papers in five seconds, why not?
The Irish Times
11
A trawl through the week's papers does turn up a few possible sightings.
The Guardian
12
A trawl two weeks ago had set the figure at 97.
The Irish Times
13
Nothing for him there, then; he decided to trawl the inns and workshops.
Anvil Gate
14
Survey of London, by John Stow A compendious street-by-street trawl through Elizabethan London.
The Guardian
15
The reporting involved a trawl of comments on Mumsnet and Twitter.
The Irish Times
16
The Exodus, fishing for whitefish, had made its fourth trawl of the day.
The Irish Times
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Translations for trawl
Portuguese
rasca
Catalan
traïnya
Trawl through the time
Trawl across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Rare
United States of America
Rare