trawl
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Synonyms: brawl, trail, drawl, crawl, wrawl, trall, trowl, rawl, tral, grawl, tawl
Antonyms: brawl, trail, drawl, crawl, wrawl, trall, trowl, rawl, tral, grawl, tawl
Related words from Datamuse; suggestions, not definitions.
Noun
- A [[net]] or [[dragnet]] used for [[trawling]]. {{defdate|from the 16th c.}}
- A long [[fishing line]] having many short lines bearing [[hook]]s attached to it; a [[setline]].
- An [[exhaustive]] [[search]].
Verb
- {{lb|en|ambitransitive}} To take (fish or other marine animals) with a trawl.
- {{lb|en|intransitive}} To [[fish]] from a slow-moving [[boat]].
- {{lb|en|intransitive}} To make an [[exhaustive]] [[search]] for something within a [[defined]] [[area]].
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