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trawler
Alternative clues for the word trawler
Word definitions for trawler in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trawler \Trawl"er\, n. One who, or that which, trawls. A fishing vessel which trails a net behind it.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a fisherman who use a trawl net a fishing boat that uses a trawl net or dragnet to catch fish [syn: dragger ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Gigantic trawlers remove huge catches from the seas. ▪ Local fishermen say that, when accidents happen, the trawlers never stop. ▪ Next month's test will involve a trawler , out of Girvan, and a single submarine. ▪ Ship rescue: ...
Usage examples of trawler.
Both trawlers had reported a big swell still running from the north, but the wind backing westerly and the barometric pressure 2 to 3 millibars lower than the weather map indicated in that area.
The same clutches of real-keel inshore trawlers and tenders moored along the dock, dwarfed by the gaunt, outrigged bulk of a big ocean-going rayhunter in their midst.
French organization of ten trawlers set out from Malta to make a preliminary reconnoissance around Corfu, to drag for mines and to clear out the submarines.
Jonathan thought that the two on the fishing trawler were probably drinking their pint at the old Mooneye right at that moment and that old Monroe was likely shoving a joint of beef up onto a spit while his wife cleaned potatoes and rolled out crusts for pies.
After a quick fuel-tank fill-up, which Gamay also paid for, Neal set the trawler on a course that would take it into the open sea.
Through the rain which rattled off the deck again and set the Oerlikon glistening, Milliken saw for the first time the shape of a trawler in the mist, slightly to port of them, blue-grey and blurred but ominously high and powerful.
Arab dhows and Gallic currachs, Greek triremes and balsa-wood PT boats, Canton delta lorcha and lateen-sailed Portuguese trawlers.
Still closer, and Soviet destroyers and patrol boats began harassment exercises, darting in and out toward the bobbing trawler, sometimes closing to within twenty-five yards before veering away.
Even a half mile inland, pelicans padded up and down the avenues, and the foghorns in the bay could be heard off and on, warning trawlers and barges and sloops away from the rocky shores.
Jao necks, trying to spot the remaining powerboats while the trawler heeled across the waves and began to pick up speed.
There is no doubt whatever that they do have trawlers operating in the area.
The hand techniques should be coming online about the time we run out of motor fuel for the trawlers, giving us our daily needs and about a quarter or more over for reserves.
For every trawler bobbing in the waves, five thousand miles from home, a fleet of support vessels was needed because the trawlers could not pull into port.
A couple of trawlers moved listlessly through the dark, and he could hear kids laughing on the beach.
Most of it comes from Aruba, brought over at night on fast trawlers and put ashore at Puerto Estrella for distribution down the peninsula on the trucks.