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trawl

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trawling

Etymology

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16th century, borrowed from Dutch tragelen ("to pull with a towline, trawl"), from Middle Dutch traghelen , from traghel ("dragnet") (presumably from Latin tragula ("dragnet")), and as such root-cognate with English drag and dray .

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Noun

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trawl (plural trawls )

  1. A net or dragnet used for trawling. [from the 16th c.]
  2. A long fishing line having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it; a setline.
  3. An exhaustive search.
    I embarked on a trawl through my uncle's papers in search of his missing will.

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Verb

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trawl (third-person singular simple present trawls , present participle trawling , simple past and past participle trawled )

  1. (ambitransitive ) To take (fish or other marine animals) with a trawl.
    The fisherman went out to trawl the deep sea for shrimp.
  2. (intransitive ) To fish from a slow-moving boat.
    They used a large net to trawl for fish along the coast.
  3. (intransitive ) To make an exhaustive search for something within a defined area.
    Synonyms: rummage , forage , rifle
    We need to trawl through the data to find meaningful patterns.

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To fish with a trawl
To make an exhaustive search within a defined area
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