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Trawl

noun
1.
A long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys).  Synonyms: setline, spiller, trawl line, trotline.
2.
A conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths.  Synonyms: dragnet, trawl net.





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"Trawl" Quotes from Famous Books



... occasions on which the vessel was anchored to ice-floes the trawl-net was used, and the hempen tangles. The net was drawn forward slowly with the ice which was drifting to the north-west before a fresh S.E. breeze which was blowing at the time. The yield of the trawling was extraordinarily ...
— The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II • A.E. Nordenskieold


Words linked to "Trawl" :   fishnet, fishing line, fishing net, fish


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