What is "trawls"

Usage examples of "trawls".

Chamber-to-chamber time trawls are a hell of a lot safer in case anything goes wrong.

The crews rowed out in the morning, paid out their trawls, and then hauled them back every few hours.

Taking advantage of what would surely be an all-too-brief spell of fine weather, the inshore fishermen - those who fished the local grounds with gill nets, trawls and handlines - were early at work, their small boats no more than distant motes on the metallic mir ror of the sea.