Trawl is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TRAWL in dictionary:

VERB:
• to fish by dragging a net along the bottom of the sea
• fish with a trawl net or seine
• catch with a trawl or seine
• drag or trail (something) through water
• search thoroughly
• To take fish, or other marine animals, with a trawl.
• fish with trawlers
• fish with such a net
NOUN:
• an act of fishing with a trawl net or seine
• a large wide-mouthed fishing net dragged by a boat along the bottom of the sea or a lake.
• a thorough search
• a long sea-fishing line along which are tied buoys supporting baited hooks on short lines.
• net dragged at deep levels behind a fishing boat
• A fishing line, often extending a mile or more, having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it. It is used for catching cod, halibut, etc.; a boulter.
• A large bag net attached to a beam with iron frames at its ends, and dragged at the bottom of the sea, -- used in fishing, and in gathering forms of marine life from the sea bottom.
• a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys)
• a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to fish by dragging a net along the sea bottom

Words related to TRAWL

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Words that contain TRAWL

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How to use TRAWL in a sentence

• We had a compact trawl, with a 15-feet beam, on board, and we sent it down off Cape St.
• A Boulogne fisherman had caught the new cable in his trawl, and, raising it, had cut a section away.
• Levick Sorting a Trawl Catch 101 Seals Basking on Newly-formed Pancake Ice off Cape Evans 106 Lieut.
• Nelson is going to put over the 8 feet Agassiz trawl.
• With some misgivings he noted that the trawl fishers were skimming toward port in their Hampton boats.
• Royal Commission on Trawl, Net, and Beam-Trawl Fishing, 1884.
• Virtually all taking of ground fish on these grounds is done by hand-lining, though the practice of trawl fishing has come more and more into use in recent years.
• Species and seasons are the same as on Lukes Rock, but mainly cod and pollock are taken here by trawl and hand line.
• Fishing here is done by small boats and small vessels mainly from Bass Harbor and Southwest Harbor by trawl and hand line.
• Vessels from Maine ports use this ground, fishing by hand line and trawl.
• Principally Maine vessels fish this ground, using hand line and trawl.
• The trawl, formerly not much used here, is now in general use.
• Fishing on these grounds is mainly by hand line and trawl.
• Trawl fishing and gill netting are done in the spring for cod and hand lining for cod and pollock in October.
• This is both a small-boat and a vessel ground fished by hand line, trawl, and gill nets.
• Fishing on this ground is by hand line and trawl by small boats and sloops, with an occasional trip by larger vessels in winter.
• These grounds are fished by trawl, hand line and gill nets.
• Cape Cod Bay has a considerable Industry in flounder dragging, the fish being taken by a small type of otter trawl.
• The craft are mostly hand-liners from Cutler, Jonesport, and Rockland, with a few vessels from the trawl fleets of Portland and others from the Canadian Provinces.
• The center of the ground furnishes good trawl fishing from May 1 to September.
• Six hundred of her sons, used to hauling the seine and baiting the trawl, were in British prisons.
• Fastened to the buoy-line at some sixty fathoms, or three hundred and sixty feet from the keg, was the trawl with a small anchor attached to sink it to the bottom.
• The trawl was hauled in hand over hand, the heavy strain necessarily working the dory slowly along.

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