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trawl::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | dragnet, trawl net |
| Type of | fishing net, fishnet |
trawl::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | setline, spiller, trawl line, trotline |
| Type of | fishing line |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | fish |
Examples of trawl
trawl
It doesn't take a trawl of thirty minutes on the Internet, it take two seconds.
From the forbes.com
It was recovered as part of a general trawl in the ocean for biology of interest.
From the bbc.co.uk
Trawl charity shops, buy novelty items, and take photos to record the good times.
From the independent.co.uk
The oil industry uses supercomputers to trawl seismic data before drilling wells.
From the economist.com
Marty Crump's book is a trawl through the whole gamut of weird animal behaviours.
From the newscientist.com
Most people don't do that, even a quick trawl through Twitter will tell you that.
From the guardian.co.uk
I trawl GU for radio reviews and I must be missing your reviews so I apologise.
From the guardian.co.uk
They sampled creatures surviving on the bottom after fishing with a beam trawl.
From the newscientist.com
This October, they were each trawled five times, mimicking a high-intensity trawl.
From the newscientist.com
- A long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys)
- Fish with trawlers
- A conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths
- Trawling is a method of fishing that involves pulling a large fishing net through the water behind one or more boats. The net that is used for trawling is called a trawl.
- A net used for trawling; A long fishing line having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it; a setline; To take fish, or other marine animals, with a trawl; To fish from a slow moving boat; To make an exhaustive search for something within a defined area
- (Trawling) Also known as dredging, the process of dragging huge, heavy nets over the sea floor, scooping up everything in their path.
- (Trawling) A harvesting method that involves dragging an open-mouthed net behind the boat. Many types of bottom-dwelling fish are caught when trawling.
- (Trawling) Dragging a large net along the bottom of a body of water to collect organisms, usually for commercial fishing or scientific research.
- (Trawling) Fishing methods where a single vessel or pair of vessels tow a large netting bag (trawl net).
