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trawl
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[trɔːl], (Verb)
Definitions:
- fish with a trawl net or seine
(e.g: the boats trawled for flounder)
- search thoroughly
(e.g: the Home Office trawled through twenty-five-year-old confidential files)
Phrases:
Origin
:
mid 16th century (as a verb): probably from Middle Dutch traghelen ‘to drag’ (related to traghel ‘dragnet’), perhaps from Latin tragula ‘dragnet’
[trɔːl], (Noun)
Definitions:
- an act of fishing with a trawl net or seine
(e.g: they had caught two trout on the lazy trawl up-lake)
- a thorough search
(e.g: a constant trawl for information)
Phrases:
Origin
:
mid 16th century (as a verb): probably from Middle Dutch traghelen ‘to drag’ (related to traghel ‘dragnet’), perhaps from Latin tragula ‘dragnet’
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