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Wiktionary
n. A (l en commercial) (l en fishing) (l en technique) in which a (l en net) is (l en drag dragged) by a moving (l en boat) vb. (present participle of trawl English)
Wikipedia
Trawling is a method of fishing that involves pulling a fishing net through the water behind one or more boats. The net that is used for trawling is called a trawl.
The boats that are used for trawling are called trawlers or draggers. Trawlers vary in size from small open boats with only 30 hp engines to large factory trawlers with over 10,000 hp. Trawling can be carried out by one trawler or by two trawlers fishing cooperatively ( pair trawling).
Trawling can be contrasted with trolling, where baited fishing lines instead of trawls are drawn through the water. Trolling is used both for recreational and commercial fishing whereas trawling is used mainly for commercial fishing. Trawling is also commonly used as a scientific sampling, or survey, method.
Usage examples of "trawling".
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.