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n. A trawl net.

n. See setline.

v. To catch (fish) with a trawl.

verb-intransitive. To fish with a trawl.

verb-intransitive. To troll.

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

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

v. To fish from a slow moving boat.

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

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

n. 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.

n. 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.

To drag, as a trawlnet.

To catch or take with a trawl-net.

To use a trawl-line or trawl-net; fish with a trawl.

n. A buoyed line, often of great length, to which short lines with baited hooks are attached at suitable intervals; a trawl-line.

n. A large bag-net, with a wide mouth held open by a frame or other contrivance, and often having net wings on each side of the mouth, designed to be dragged along the bottom by a boat.

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

n. a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths

v. fish with trawlers

""She has a great net like a big night-cap stretched over on a spar, which we call a trawl-beam, and this is lowered down, and as the boat sails it is dragged along the bottom, and catches soles, and turbot, and plaice and sometimes john-dory, and gurnet, and brill."

trawled    trawling    trawls   

fishing line    fishnet    fishing net    fish   

to throw the trawl    to set a trawl    to strip a trawl    runner of a trawl    beam-trawl   

boulter   

trawling    handline    caruncle    fur seal    tunny    1    gilliflower    paua    dredge    litharge