Definitions for trawl

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trawl trawl

Spelling: [trawl]

IPA: /trɔl/

Trawl is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 48 anagrams from letters in trawl (alrtw).

Definitions for trawl

noun

1. Also called trawl net. a strong fishing net for dragging along the sea bottom.
2. Also called trawl line. a buoyed line used in sea fishing, having numerous short lines with baited hooks attached at intervals.

verb (used with object)

1. to catch with a trawl net or a trawl line.
2. to drag (a trawl net).
3. to troll.

verb (used without object)

1. to fish with a net that drags along the sea bottom to catch the fish living there.
2. to fish with a trawl line.
3. to troll.

Origin of trawl

1475-85; Middle Dutch tragel (noun), tragelen (v.); cognate with trail

Examples for trawl

Anyhow, he says that you are to give a hand when we shoot and when we haul the trawl.'

Next they turned their attention to picking the trawl already in the water.

He had seen enough to realize that pulling a trawl was no sinecure.

What fry could evade the hook, the net, or the trawl of these men?

It's reminding me of my hauling of my first trawl on the Banks.

If the night is clear you can sleep, except when the trawl is being got up.

She ran up alongside the Barracouta, where the boys were baiting their trawl.

He turned his back on the stranger and resumed baiting his trawl.

He was soon unhooking hake and coiling the trawl into its tub.

By-the-bye, how do you pass the time away before hauling the trawl?'