trawl
A net or dragnet used for trawlingA net or dragnet used for trawling.
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3 sensesA net or dragnet used for trawling.
A long fishing line having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it; a setline.
a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys)
An exhaustive search.
I embarked on a trawl through my uncle's papers in search of his missing will.
Examples
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Trawling causes a devastating waste of life in the form of bycatch.
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. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Origin
16th century, borrowed from Dutch tragelen (“to pull with a towline, trawl”), from Middle16th 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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