What is "trawl"

Usage examples of "trawl".

Andy Clark remarked to Astor, while the others were watching Caroline trawl through vast amounts of electronically archived data.

We discovered that we had loads in common and like me, he knows all the famous designers and places to get offcuts of fabric, and often goes down to Portobello to trawl round the vintage clothes shops.

Later he would datavise the files into a processor block, running a comparison with the huge catalogue of recidivist names, facial images, and in some cases DNA prints which the ESA had trawled from right across the Confederation.

This was a little different Indigo data scrolled across her sight as the Prime in her pearl ring trawled the datapool for real-time police messages.

And in that misguided belief, they experimented in trawling a human being from the past.

So solidly built that it fears no weather, with a round bottom, tossed about unceasingly on the waves like a cork, always on top, always thrashed by the harsh salt winds of the English Channel, it ploughs the sea unweariedly with bellying sail, dragging along at its side a huge trawling net, which scours the depths of the ocean, and detaches and gathers in all the animals asleep in the rocks, the flat fish glued to the sand, the heavy crabs with their curved claws, and the lobsters with their pointed mustaches.

But if the rope were cut the trawling net would be lost, and this net was worth money, a great deal of money, fifteen hundred francs.

The next day the entire crew of the trawling smack followed the funeral of the detached arm.

Ends up saying there were no contingency plans for further trawling or return of subject.

He is also an imagist, he taps all the nets, all of them, he goes trawling for images for his story eggs, and he remembers everything.

The basic shape looked good, and she reached for images to complement it, trawling now through less familiar news nets and more sober datafields.

And of course, the police forces involved would be trawling for fresh witnesses now they had a suspect whose photograph they could release.

In the inflamed distance, far to the northwest, an isolated storm raged over the Flats: It was a mass of purple clouds, veined with lightning, trawling curtains of rain.

Often, trawling the deep pools created by fallen trees, far up the river, he saw his dugout sliding over the water, light as a leaf.

When we caught the wind we were soon on our seaward course, and only stopped to underrun a trawl, for the floats of which Mrs.