See Also: trawl(medicine)
trawl(1)(dictionary)
trawl(2)(dictionary)
trawl 1, verb(dictionary)
trawl 2, noun(dictionary)

trawl(1) (iou)



trawl noun. M17.
[In branch I from TRAWL verb; in branch II perh. from TRAWL verb but cf. Middle Dutch draghel drag-net.]
I.
An act of trawling for fish. rare. M17.
An exhaustive or extensive search. L20.
Out of Town A trawl through the display cases could reveal..many..items.
II.
A large fishing net, esp. a conical one with a wide mouth, dragged along the bottom of the sea or a river by a boat. Also trawl-net. L17.
A long buoyed sea-fishing line having many short lines with baited hooks attached at intervals. Also trawl-line. US. M19.
Comb.: trawl-beam: for holding open the mouth of a trawl; trawl-buoy: for buoying up a trawl; trawl-head either of two metal frames supporting the trawl-beam; trawl-line: see sense 4 above; trawl-net: see sense 3 above; trawl-warp a rope by which a trawl-net is dragged along.