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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



... grey weather, Blow the man down, bullies, blow the man down! Sea-lark singing to Golden Feather, And burly blue waters all swelling aroun'. There's Thunderstone butting ahead as they wallow, With death in the mesh of their deep-sea trawl; There's Night-Hawk swooping by wild Sea-swallow; And old Cap'n Storm-along leading ...
— The New Morning - Poems • Alfred Noyes


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


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