noun
Meaning 1
A net or dragnet used for trawling.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
trawl
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /tɹɔːl/
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Australian, British, New-Zealand, Southern, Standard: /tɹoːl/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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/tɹɔl/ without the cot–caught merger
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cot-caught-merger: /tɹɑl/
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Canada: /tɹɒl/
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Scotland: /tɾɔl/
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Wales: /tɾɔːl/
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rhymes with -ɔːl
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homophone: troll (some dialects)
noun
Meaning 2
A long fishing line having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it; a setline.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
An exhaustive search.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- I embarked on a trawl through my uncle's papers in search of his missing will.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
To take (fish or other marine animals) with a trawl.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive
Examples
- The fisherman went out to trawl the deep sea for shrimp.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
To fish from a slow-moving boat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Examples
- They used a large net to trawl for fish along the coast.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 6
To make an exhaustive search for something within a defined area.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Examples
- We need to trawl through the data to find meaningful patterns.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: rummage, forage, rifle
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dragnet, trawl net
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fishnet, fishing net
noun
Meaning 8
a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: trawl line, spiller, setline, trotline
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fishing line
verb
Meaning 9
fish with trawlers
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fish
History
Etymology
16th century, borrowed from Dutch tragelen (“to pull with a towline, trawl”), from Middle Dutch traghelen, from traghel (“dragnet”) (presumably from Latin tragula (“dragnet”)), and as such root-cognate with English drag and dray.
Across languages
Translations
25 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: траля (tralja) — To fish with a trawl
- Finnish: troolata — To fish with a trawl
- French: chaluter — To fish with a trawl
- Indonesian: memukat — To fish with a trawl
- Indonesian: menjaring — To fish with a trawl
- Italian: sciabicare — To fish with a trawl
- Polish: łowić włokiem — To fish with a trawl
- Polish: złowić włokiem — To fish with a trawl
- Russian: тра́лить (trálitʹ) — To fish with a trawl
- Serbo-Croatian: kočariti — To fish with a trawl
- Spanish: hacer pescar arrastrera — To fish with a trawl
- Spanish: pescar con red barredera — To fish with a trawl
- Spanish: pescar arrastreramente — To fish with a trawl
- Spanish: pescar al arrastre — To fish with a trawl
- Swedish: tråla — To fish with a trawl
- Tagalog: mamalakaya — To fish with a trawl
- French: passer au peigne fin — To make an exhaustive search within a defined area
- German: durchforsten — To make an exhaustive search within a defined area
- Polish: wyszukiwać — To make an exhaustive search within a defined area
- Polish: wyszukać — To make an exhaustive search within a defined area
- Russian: прочёсывать (pročósyvatʹ) — To make an exhaustive search within a defined area
- Serbo-Croatian: pročešljati — To make an exhaustive search within a defined area
- Spanish: rastrear — To make an exhaustive search within a defined area
- Spanish: esculcar — To make an exhaustive search within a defined area
- Spanish: escurcar — To make an exhaustive search within a defined area