verb · intransitive · rare

trawl

trawl · trawls · trawled · trawling

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durchforsten

To take with a trawlTo take (fish or other marine animals) with a trawl.

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UK/tɹɔːl/US/tɹɒl/

» Our experienced travel consultants can help you to trawl through the best deals around.

Meaning

3 senses

(ambitransitive)To take (fish or other marine animals) with a trawl.
The fisherman went out to trawl the deep sea for shrimp.
(intransitive)To fish from a slow-moving boat.
They used a large net to trawl for fish along the coast.
тра́литьtrálitʹ
fish with trawlers
(intransitive)To make an exhaustive search for something within a defined area.
We need to trawl through the data to find meaningful patterns.
durchforsten
прочёсыватьpročósyvatʹ

Examples

3 sentences

Our experienced travel consultants can help you to trawl through the best deals around.
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Trawling causes a devastating waste of life in the form of bycatch.
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Tom went to a charity shop to trawl through all the records they had for sale.
deIch bin in einen karitativen Gebrauchtwarenladen gegangen, um die zum Verkauf stehenden Platten zu durchforsten.
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Translations

6 languages

Русский

By meaning 2

To fish with a trawl:

To make an exhaustive search within a defined area:

Deutsch

By meaning 1

To make an exhaustive search within a defined area:

Origin

16th century, borrowed from Dutch tragelen (“to pull with a towline, trawl”), from Middle

16th century, borrowed from Dutch tragelen (“to pull with a towline, trawl”), from Middle Dutch traghelen, from traghel (“dragnet”) (presumably from Latin tragula (“dragnet”)), and as such root-cognate with English drag and dray.

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